When I was very young, I commonly heard people around me say, "Shoo." if an insect was bothering them. My parents told me that whenever a fly or bug was pestering me, I would sit down, take one of my shoes off, and wave it at the bug while saying, "Shoe bug... shoe!" because I was too young to understand the differance between shoo and shoe.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that shoo fly pie was made of old shoes and dead flys, and I wouldn't eat it.— Aubri
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.
- I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!— Nate
- Backstreet Boys - I want it that way? I heard "I was born on a tidal wave— gembop
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know