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as a child I was incredibly traumatised by tulips, possibly after watching the day of the triffids. My dad used to deliberately take me past beds of red tulips (they were the worst ones) whenever possible. The git.
Sean
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For some reason - and I have no idea why - when I was very young (probably about 3-4 years old) I thought that the sticks that fell during a rainstorm that were still wet would bite you if you touched them. If they were dry, everything was fine, but if they were wet, they'd bite you. Further, this applied only to small sticks, not to branches or limbs, but sticks of the specific length of maybe 2-7 inches. Anything larger or smaller was deemed, for some reason, harmless. So I would get my yellow rainslicker on, take a plastic cup, and go around cautiously collecting these biting sticks, ultimately putting them either in the trash where they couldn't hurt anyone or in the garage to dry them out enough that they were once again safe for public use. Then, for some reason, I stopped thinking about it altogether, without any consideration as to whether or not what I'd been thinking had been correct or not.
Jake S.
I was told by my horrible lying cousin that the trees with the long funny dangly pods were spagetti trees, it took me till the age of about 17 to work out that spaggetti did not grow on trees humpf
Aly
My ma told me not to pick dandelions, because dogs pee'd on them. So for years I thought that dogs pee'd *only* on dandelions, and if a dog wanted to relieve itself, then it would have to go find a dandelion first..!
Siya
That cress was really just another name for clover, and for years I would happily tell people I had no desire to eat grass.
K
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That eating grass was a sure fire way to gain superhuman powers.
Brendan
I used to believe that bread, cheese and money all grew on trees. So I planted some. When it didn't grow, my mum told me that the "seeds" must have been eaten by birds.
Ben
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I used to believe that if you stood on a toadstool, that it would turn into a dragon and eat you. Countryside walks became lightfooted journeys of pure fear thanks to the twisted lies of my dad.
izb
If you held a buttercup under your chin and got a yellow reflection then you liked butter!
Tilly
That the trees made the wind by waving
diyjoe.com
I used to believe that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows
Farino
If you picked a dandelion, you would pee your pants
Mandie
My mum told me that if you sniffed poppies your nose would bleed.
Karen
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My mum always told me not to put my nose too close to flowers to smell them because insects would crawl in and eventually make their way to my brain and never come out again.
Cathy
My mum told me that if I picked dandelions that I would wet my knickers.
Rachael
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