Growing up, we lived across from a field and there would always be tractors tilling the soil. As the tractors would move along, flocks and flocks of seagulls would follow and try to eat whatever was being churned up. One day when I was very young, my family and I were watching this and I stated very matter of factly that "tractors make seagulls"
I thought I was so smart for figuring that out on my own.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- When my dad was little his older siblings convinced him that there were flocks of flying turtles.— Anonymous
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.Anon
- When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.Anon
- I used to think seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.
Anon - I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon