When I was growing up, my grandmother drilled the idea into my head that if I didn't rinse off the lid of a can of pop, I would get rat urine in my mouth and fall over dead.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I used to believe that the little 'helicopters' that fall from the trees were dead tadpoles.— Chester Finnigan SnapDragon McFisticuff
- I used to believe that "DEAD END: signs meaned it was the end of the world and you would fall off completely— Kristin
- someone could unscrew my belly button, and if they did, my head would fall offAnon
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela