I wanted a bird so my dad said that if I could pour salt on a birds tail i could keep it. I ran around the yard all day with a salt shaker. No Bird!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra