I used to think that a "concrete jungle" was an actual jungle. I imagined it to be like a rainforest, but instead of water and plants, there was wet concrete.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- My buddy used to think that when Steve Millers sang "Jungle Love" he was actually saying "Chug-a-lug" — Harold
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.— Scary Dream
- I thought plants only grew when people were not looking at them.Anon