My mom would get on our case if we left food stains around the house. She would say, "Clean that up or it will draw ants!". For the longest time, I kept thinking that the food stain would somehow form pictures of ants that would come alive.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...— Tam
- I used to think that the gas meter made antsAnon
- I used to believe that snakes don't have legs cause ants bit them of.— Lulzy
- my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!— jeps