You know how your pee is more yellow sometimes than others? Well, I apparently had a not too far off understanding about where babies came from. Except I thought the man peed. And so jaundiced babies (which I was) came from the really yellow pee.
One that my son currently thinks: If we hear a song on the radio in my car, he will say, “Mommy has this song in her car, too.” He can’t get the whole radio vs. CD thing.
Bless you for opening the body function door! Problem is I did not go through this "what we thought" moment as a child.
Granted, I survived the typical Dad stories about cows in the mountains walking around steep hills having two shorter legs on one side so they could stand straight when they walked, and what I now know to be his attempts at "selective" heredity by allowing all five kids to stand up in the back of the truck, or sit on the rails while he drove down the road at unlimited speeds (we all survived)...
...My moment came in Boot Camp in the Corps...At the Chow Hall you had a choice of milk, water or juices...one of which was grape juice. Being one of five kids, when grape juice came into the house it did not last long, so massive and continual amounts of grape juice never entered my body...until then.
For at least the first three weeks of Parris Island I drank nothing but grape juice...it was so good when it shot out of that little machine straw into a glass...I still love good grape juice today, over thirty years later.
Yet one morning there in Boot Camp, trying to do my business in the brief time allowed a young recruit, I remember standing up, turning around to flush and seeing my, um, how to put this...fecal matter was green and immediately thought to myself, "What have I gotten in to...they even camouflage your crap green in the Corps - and went with this for a few hours in my mind...wondering what mad scientists came up with the formula, and how to get in into the recruit's body to hide his poop in the woods (desert warfare wasn't the thing yet in the early 80's...thank goodness, huh?).
I honestly think I made it to rack time that night before I remembered the grape juice and actually laid off of it for a few weeks...
Still wonder about the saltpeter though!!!