I used to think that rat tails—those weird little long pieces of braided hair stemming out of an otherwise short haircut—were a disease! They just looked so unnatural to me, and when I was in second grade and I saw this boy on the playground who had one, I ran away from him for fear of "catching" his rat tail. I would constantly stare at the backs of people's necks, worrying that they were beginning to catch it and soon a big ugly rat tail would sprout out, and I wanted to ask my parents if a cure for rat tails had been found yet but I was too scared!
It wasn't until around sixth grade that it finally dawned on me that it was just a very bizarre style choice.
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- That hot dogs were made from rat tails.Anon
- When i was little, i thought dogs poop from their tails.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that wind was caused by whales flapping their tails way out in the ocean.— Nanohawk
- I used to believe that waves were made by whales who lined up in a row and flapped their tails.— Passionola