As kids my Dad told us that if we ate the little squares in the waffles that our stomachs would blow up, so i remember thinking dad is always right cuz he is the smartest man in the world, so my brothers and sister would try to pick around the waffle squares so our stomachs wouldn't blow up.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i watched too much TV my pupils would take the shape of squares— Tilda
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- I used to think that if you put geraniums into electric switches it would blow up the whole world!— Steve Jeffs
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey