I took everything literally. When my mom mentioned she was going to "clean the lintcatcher", I pictured a butterfly net she must have used to run around the house with to catch lint. I wondered why I never saw it.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- I used to believe that belly button lint came from the *inside*. Why else would it always be the same color?Anon
- that if i swang high enough on the swing set at my grandmothers house...i could catch a cloud for her.— nicole
- When I was in Kindergarten I used to believe that when I grew up i could be a butterfly.Anon
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?