My aunt told me when I was little that the wavy heat coming from the road meant you were thirsty. For years when we were all in the car together, all of us kids would say “Look, I’m thirsty!” The adults would roar with laughter, and I never could figure out why. Till much later that is.
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when trees were thirsty they would tell the sky and it would rain.— Raya
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- I could never figure out what an "Elomenopee" was till I learned the alphabet a bit better. "L-M-N-O-P"— Lula
- I used to believe when adults grew up only 4' 9" or lower are still classified as kids.— Jorge