I thought "carrot and the stick" meant laying a carrot out on the ground in front of the horse (which it'd walk towards) and laying a stick on the ground behind the horse (which it'd walk away from because it would hurt stepping on the stick.)
And I wondered, why would stepping on a stick hurt a horse?
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- I used to think the song "Walk this way" by Arosmith went horse and sleigh insted of singing walk this way.— Derek
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela
- My friend used to think hit me with your rythm stick was hit me with your fiddle stick!! lolAnon
- i thought that if you broke the law a officer would come and hit you with a night stick— Ron
- I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.— Missa