I talked way too much and I couldn't sit still.
When I was 3, I was terrified of this singing plastic deer head decoration my parents had called "Buddy Buck." Don't ask me why, but I cried every time it was turned on and I clung to my parents.
When I was 5, I thought chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk ("vanilla milk" as I called it) came from white cows. I think I thought strawberry milk came from pink cows but I could not tell you why I had never seen a pink cow.
When I was 6, my friends and I were playing in the attic when we found a spider, so we ripped apart trash bags and threw pieces of trash bag at it in an attempt to kill it.
When we were 8, we thought Martians would be invading Earth, and that every "unusual" occurrence was caused by Martians (salami being served in the cafeteria, my friend's mom sleeping in day clothes, the word "alien" appearing in the dictionary). Yeah. We blamed everything on aliens before it was a meme.
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