I grew up in Florida were it doesn't snow. In school we would create snow flakes for decorations during the holidays. But it wasn't until I saw snow at age 18 that I realized snow flakes were microscopic, not 8x10.
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I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.
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A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.
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I used to belive that rain drops were the angels tears and dog poop out in the neighborhood was left by the angels also.
i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.
This actually was a belief of my brother's that when I was a kid, I thought was true. My dad works at a power plant, and my brother, in preschool said his daddy worked at a cloud factory. after hearing my parents say this story over and over I started to believe them.
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The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month.
I used to think that clouds came from the big factory downtown. When the clouds were dark, the factory was putting out more pollution.
When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.
My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.
When I was 6 years old I was afraid of the "eye of the hurricane" passing over us because I thought it was a real eye.
I used to believe that the lightning would come thru my bedroom window and strike me in my bed...for years I silently wished my bed wasn't right under the darn window !!!! I also thought if I hid under the blankets the lightning wouldn't be able to find me.
When i was a little kid, i used to go to the beach often in the summer, and reasoned that the ocean waves were what caused the earth to rotate. I therefore concluded that by getting in the way of the waves (swimming) i was making summer last a little longer.
i used to believe that there was a dropoff in the ocean and that if i walked to far out, i would fall down in it and never be found.
I used to believe that Earth was covered by a dome, just like a planetarium, and that the stars were painted on the ceiling.
After learning in school that trees and plants were actually ALIVE, I used to imagine that the smoke coming from the burning wood in the fireplace was the tree's soul escaping.
I thought that if I could ever travel into outer space, I would take a pair of pliers with me, to collect stars. Mommy did say they were too hot to touch.
When I was 5 I use to believe that Raggedy Ann and Andy lived on the moon.
In elementary school, there was this tree that on one side looked like the backside of a woman. I tried to sneak into my school at night once because I thought that a naked lady would step out of the tree.
i used to believe that if i planted some sesemi seeds form a burger i would actualy grow bread!