"Let me know" is a column for our readers' stories. We launch a survey every week and are waiting for your comments. This time we were wondering what strange things you believed in as a child. We received a lot of sweet, funny and even sad responses. Here are the most interesting ones.
When I heard the phrase "Bread ripens in the fields," I thought that it literally is. There was such a bread — "Plait". It looks very similar to an ear of wheat.
When I saw fields of wheat as a child, I thought that the ears were just "Plaits" that should ripen and increase in size. And then trucks with the word "Bread" come for them and take them to the store. I thought it worked for all types of bread and somewhere there are fields with ordinary loaves and "Darnitsky", I just didn't see them.
Until junior high, I sincerely believed that if you lie down on your stomach and hear the beating of your heart, it means only one thing: you pressed it down with your weight, and soon it will stop. Naturally, I no longer believe in this, but I still can't sleep if I hear my heart working.
It used to seem to me that in fact the days of the week do not repeat themselves and they all have different names. Then, at some point, the most reasonable names were selected, and they lined up in the current order of the days of the week.
I was often told that children appear when a husband and wife eat sunflower seeds together. Pumpkin plants give birth to "blonde" ones, sunflower plants give birth to brunettes. My ideas were shaken only in my school years due to yard giggles and whispers, and finally broke down in anatomy lessons in high school.
As a child, it was considered unlucky to step on a manhole cover. One day I stood up to her on purpose to show that it was all a lie. And then on the same day I fell into a puddle and everyone was talking: "You see!"
As a child, I was told that if you leave unwashed dishes in the sink at night, then the weather will be bad the next day. And in the summer, before going to bed, I washed all the dishes like a pretty girl, so that I could go to the beach the next day.
As a child, I thought that all adults were smart. This is how my mother raised me, she said that elders should be obeyed and respected. The first disappointment happened in the fourth grade. We didn't live well, and my mother worked part-time at school: she cleaned and mopped the floors in the evenings. I came to help her.
One day, a teacher of Russian language and literature saw me and praised me for it. The next day in class, she gave us the task to write an essay about who we would like to become when we grow up. And this teacher affectionately and with a smile announced to the whole class that I did not need to write anything, since I had already chosen and would be a cleaner. It was so painful! I ran home and cried a lot. That's when Mom explained to me that not all adults are smart. And it's true!
I believed that there was a moon tan. I spent a week sunbathing under the moon, because I burned in the sun.
I was six years old and my sister was 11 when we visited my grandmother in the village. She sent us to collect the larvae of Colorado potato beetles in a potato field.
In the evening of the same day, grandma cooked jam on the stove. When I asked what the jam was made of, Grandma replied that it was made from larvae. Said: "You didn't collect them for nothing." I say, "How is that? Here are the berries floating." "And they add larvae to the berries for sourness," my grandmother answered me. In general, the larval jam was delicious, which I was happy to tell everyone about until the age of 25, until my sister confessed to me that she and my grandmother had made a joke about me.
As a child, someone told me that Pekingese dogs have such bulging eyes because they fall out all the time and can even roll under the sofa. And the owners should put them back with a spoon. I've believed in this for too long, too...
