Once, in elementary school, i asked my friends older brother for some of the sour candy he was having. He looked at me oddly, and told me to look up. I did, and he told me, "I'm sorry, you don't like sour things." Rather than leave me confused, he clarified, "you see this bump?" he pointed to his own adams apple. I am a girl and, curious, I nodded. "If you have this bump, you like sour stuff. But you dont, so i cant give you any candy. Sorry."
i was well into my teens before i realized that it was okay to like sour things despite having an appleless neck.
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.— jamby
- when i was 4 or 5 i used to think neon sour gummy worms were real because they always twisted and turned— HUGBUG09
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I use to believe that if you told a story/lie you would get a bump on your tongue.Anon
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B