Jill
Aspiring Cowgirl
The song thread here has me thinking
What were some of the silly things you thought were true when you were a kid? Or was I just especially easy to fool?
There's probably more, but those are the ones I can remember now. What about you all? What are some of the things you were sure you had the scoop on when you were a kid but later realized you had it a little bit off?
What were some of the silly things you thought were true when you were a kid? Or was I just especially easy to fool?
- We live near a lot of Civil War battlefields, and a lot of them are ssurroundedby split rail fences. I asked Dad what those fences were for, and he told me it was so the soldiers stayed "in bounds" (like for football). BBelievedit for years!
- You know the buildings up on stilts near quarries? They have chutes coming down them. I still don't know what they're really for, but I no longer bbelievethat they are chicken cleaning factors, like my dad told me, and that after the feathers are pulled off, the chickens go down the chutes naked.
- My Uncle Buddy, dad's brother, was a ssheriff He told me it was illegal to swallow your gum and tell me, would a policeman lie?
- When I was really young, I thought black people just baked longer than white people (like cookies).
- That those rolly polly (potato?) bugs could rust in water, and I know I killed plenty trying to prove it.
- Every clear night in summer held the ppossibilityof spotting a UFO as it flew over our house. My friends and I watched each night and you know, we thought we saw quite a few!
There's probably more, but those are the ones I can remember now. What about you all? What are some of the things you were sure you had the scoop on when you were a kid but later realized you had it a little bit off?