haha!!!
my grade 10 science teacher, who seemed like a strictly serious man with no sense of humour, once told our class that peanut butter was made in huge lid-less vats in the middle of jungles, and thus was full of ground-up worms that had dropped into the vats.
i believed him.
didn't eat peanut butter for years. stared at it longingly, because i LOVE peanut butter...but i just couldn't eat it.
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my grandpa used to quietly advise me that if i STAYED on my butt when Mom's loving-but-firm discipline loomed, she wouldn't be able to spank it. didn't work.
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our childhood neighbour across the street used to sit on his front porch, watching the world go by. (that was a big activity in a town of 4,500 people) i would go across and sit with him, and ask him if in all his years (he was 150 years old or so, i figured) - had he ever seen a blue sky with NO CLOUDS AT ALL. he said yup, and i was deeply impressed.
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any grownups stand out in your memory?
