I used to believe that sprinkling pepper on a bird's tail would somehow make it passive and it'd belong to you...which stemmed from my misinterpretation of my father's comment that if you could get close enough to a bird to put pepper on its tail, you might as well catch it!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- I used to believe that Dr. Pepper actually tastes like Black pepper. I'm still afraid to try it.Anon
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg
- I thought that Dr. Pepper was made out of hot peppers.Anon