My younger brother used to call a wasp, a "wass." I realised what he was saying one day when we were on our porch and there was a wasp nest in the doorway. He looked at them, and ran away yelling: "The wasses are gonna sting you!"
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I thought that Loch Ness was actually Loch Nest because it was like the monster's nest— Dietrich Corby
- i used to believe that mirrors were a doorway to another world.
I still think i have a twin. :-)l(-:— bloo - I used to believe Sting was my dad in a parallel universe — Jenn Green
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- Trees grew leaves as camouflage so birds would`nd nest in them. Don`t ask.— DaWind
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)