When I was maybe six, I thought that "Sea Monkeys" (the little shrimps you could whip up as pets) really were little people- as depicted on the packages I saw at the store. I remember thinking how horrible it was that you could buy these tiny little people who were then totally at your mercy- what if some stupid kid didn't take good care of them?
Of course, none of that stopped me from wishing I had some of my own. I asked my mom for some and when she told me they weren't really people but were only boring little shrimps I didn't believe her. I thought she was just lying because she was too cheap to buy me some.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty
- I used to believe that if you crossed your fingers when you were lying, you weren't really lying.— jo