My brother and I would catch fireflies in old peanut butter jars, punch holes in the lids, and save them for the next day. When we got up the next morning, invariably the bugs would have "escaped", or so my mother told us. It wasn't until recently that my mother admitted letting them go after we went to bed. She has a heart of gold.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanut butter were bugs.— Lauren
- I used to believe that my mother invented peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Anon
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I used to believe that peanut butter was lobster poo.— PaulH(nz)
- My daughter thought that ear wax was peanut butter.— Bobbiemac
- When I was a little boy, I thought that hair was made out of peanut butter.Anon