When I was in sixth grade we had moved to Tempe, Arizona. My dad told me that a bunch of men with picks, shovels and wheel barrow dug the Salt River. Well, we had a guest speaker from the Salt River Project. When she asked the class about how the river was formed, I shot up my hand and answered the same way I was told. She looked at me blankly and decided I must have been joking. I went home and yelled at my dad........
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina