When I was little, there were these huge woods behind my house that I used to explore. One day I saw someone's old bicycle that was fused with a tree that was growing, and I was convinced for years that when people didn't want their bikes, they left them for the trees to eat.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle