I used to believe that earwigs could crawl in your ears and make you deaf. So when one flew into the car on a road trip, I would scream and cover my ears. One time I was eating in the car and an earwig flew in there, I got so scared I threw up!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - When I was little ,I used to believe that deaf people didn't have ears.— rainbow
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to think that earwigs were a type of toupee that you wear behind your ears.— Elise