When I was little, a boy at school told me that the white dots that sometimes appear on fingernails were caused by lying. From then on, I was wary of people with injured fingernails. When they developed on my nails occasionally I would worry that everyone would know I had told a lie. I grew up to be very honest!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would get worms if I bit my fingernails. — Leslie
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly
- I used to believe fog was caused by cows smoking cigars. How could mom be lying?!— La Duchesse
- I used to believe that dot-to-dots were called 'doctor dots'.— Jim
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.