One of my old babysitters told my sisters and me that if we went outside without shoes on, then we'd get 'hookworms' hooked onto the bottoms of our feet and they'd go into our skin and kill us.
We still didn't wear shoes...
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.— Casey
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- i use to beleive that horseraddish came from horses shoesAnon
- I used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly