I bet you thought that today I’d write about quilts. Or about the rock group Queen. Or maybe about how much I loved that movie about drag queens, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
How about a few quizzical things I believed when I was a kid, instead?
- I believed that if I forgot to include someone in the “God bless so-&-so part of my bedtime prayer, something terrible would happen to them. Which made for a bit of stress, as you can imagine!
- When I was about 6, I baptized a bath toy and then lived in fear for days (It was a Fuzzy Wuzzy bear bath sponge. Remember the rhyme? “fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, fuzzy wuzzy had no hair, fuzzy wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he.”)
- I believed that if I said my bedtime prayer as fast as I could, I wouldn’t die in my sleep. “nowilaymedowntosleepipraythel
ordmysoultokeepifishoulddiebef oreiwakeipraytheLordmysoultota ke.” Maybe I thought that if I said it fast enough, I could fly under God’s radar.
(Obviously my family only went to church often enough to terrify the bejeezes out if me!)
- I believed that if I ate a handful of dirt and then an apple seed, a tree would grow in my stomach. I was very careful never to eat dirt.
- I believed in the spontaneous combustion of houses (and other things.)
- I believed that if you swallowed your gum, it would stay in your stomach for seven years before being digested.
- When I was in elementary school, my friend Diane’s grandmother said to me, “you’re really quite the chubby little girl, aren’t you?” I believed her for the rest of my life. What a wicked old woman!
and okay…you twisted my arm. Here’s a Because you Matter quilt I finished about a month ago:
…and yes, Queen is my favourite rock group.
What quirky things did you believe when you were a kid?
I’m participating in the Blogging From A-Z challenge. One blog post for each letter of the alphabet, each day of April (except Sunday).