On rainy days, my younger brothers and I would be such pests that as soon as the rain eased up enough for us to go out in it, our parents would dress us in raingear and send us out to go snark hunting. We thought snarks were little lizards, like skinks, and they hid under rocks, only coming out after rain to get a drink. We had great plans to keep any we caught in a special hutch and show them to the kids at school. It wasn't until much later that I read 'The Hunting of the Snark' and realised that snarks didn't exist. It was such a disappointment that I don't think I ever told my siblings, in case I spoiled their fun.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- i thought when you went road hunting for deer i thought you ran them over— nick
- I used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon
- Someone told me that they cousin who used to think rain was God peeing.Anon