Two weeks ago when Chicago was having the most beautiful weather we've seen in the last six months I was helping (read: watching) my mom work in her yard. I love being outside but don't really do much once I'm out there. I enjoy the sun burning me as well as the wind blowing all of the exhaust fumes toward me, thus stinking up my hair. C'est Chicago eh? While she was digging in the dirt she found a worm. Normally this wouldn't be an event I'd recognize, but there are two reasons why this was so special:
1. It was the first worm of the season. Hello warm weather, I've missed you!
2. When I was younger I had imaginary worms instead of an imaginary friend.
I'll wait while you re-read that sentence, laugh, consider removing my blog from your Reader and call me crazy. Waits......
Example #1: My grandpa and I were sitting on the kitchen floor when I decided to leave the room. I asked him to hold my worms and handed them to him. While I was away I was told that he struggled to get up off of the floor because he didn't want to put the worms down. (Remember, they're imaginary.)
Example #2: Whenever I would show my worms to my grandma, she would freak out and refuse to hold them. (Remember, imaginary.) She also told me that whenever I picked my nose and ate the booger that worms would grow in my stomach. That was a pretty sucky deterrent seeing as how I apparently loved worms! That definitely did not stop me from eating them.
Years ago my mom found a little ring box in which I put a fuzzy sticker of a green and yellow worm covered with a pink and white polka-dotted blanket. I guess I gave it to her as a gift many moons ago. How adorable was I!? Pretty damn adorable if I do say so myself. As I grew older I moved on from imaginary worms to real worms. My grandpa would spend time in the garden just digging in the dirt so I could find worms to put in my bowl full of dirt. Eventually I grew less fond of worms and more creeped out by their sliminess. I imagine the turning point in our relationship was during a seventh grade Science class. We had to dissect worms and I accidentally crushed all four (five?) of its hearts.
I'm sorry worm :(
Moral of the story: Let your children watch TV so they don't have imaginary worms. Let's hope they were all earth worms and not some intestinal worms. Ew.
And for the record, yes I did just spend about 15 minutes writing a post about worms. I'm scratching the bottom of the barrel folks!
8 comments:
Ha! I think that's hysterical!
I love that you had imaginary worms.
I'm pretty sure that's my favorite child hood imaginary "thing" story ever.
I'm also pretty sure that sentence made no sense.
Oy.
OMG that is funny! When I was little I was obsessed with "Figment" from epcot center. Because it was a figment of my imagination... hee hee. Kids!
Oh that was too cute! At least you didn't eat or naw on the worms. I guess when I was very young, if my mom turned her back while I was crawling in the grass (I think I was under a year old) I would find dog poop and try and stick it in my mouth. Um, yeah, yum? lol
regardless, that is one freaking elated looking worm.
Ha, imaginary worms? That's strange but so endearing! I didn't have imaginary pet worms but the neighbor kids and I would go out after it rained and grab the worms as they were coming out of the ground.
Good times!
hahaha oh my god
sometimes i wonder how it is that im related to you and still relatively sane. yah i know its not alllll there, hence the "relatively."
at least you remember these things though. i, as noted, am terrible with childhood memories, like our 4 ninja turtles rather than 2 lol. i even had exquisite stories as to how the died/ran away/got eaten
oh man.
childhood imagination never dies
<3 sibling
Ignoring what Freud would say about a little girl having a pet worm.....I think it is great. Children too often get their imagination squashed by reality, so it is nice to hear that you were able to have that experience.
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