Haven't done any of these asksteem posts in a while so figured it was about time. I remember this question being asked on r/askreddit some time ago which resulted in a lot of fun replies, although I realize we're not really there yet with our userbase and maybe some would not want certain info out on an immutable chain it might still garner some replies anyway - maybe that's one of the fun things about being able to be anonymous which some upcoming social media platforms seem super against but on reddit it leads to a lot of great content cause users are free to express themselves however they want.
Another idea would be to have an account with a public posting key and it's own community so those abusing it would just get their comments muted but every once in a while someone would want to use it just to remain anon without having to create a new account for it - or maybe just create one if they want to use it more often for posts like these.
Anyway, so I was probably like 6-7 when I got into planting seeds and watching them grow and was super fascinated about it. I'd go out and pick up some sunflower seeds and for some period I'd literally focus so hard on it that I'd just wait for the seedling to pop out from the earth just to see it - and sunflower seeds were really fast to do so as they'd pop after a day already. I don't know if it's cause it was cold in Finland but they wouldn't survive long (it might've been autumn when I attempted it and this only lasted for a short period until I lost interest) so I'd go out pretty often to find new seeds to retry it thinking that was just a bad batch or whatever. My dad used to go out with me and this one time we found a really big seed and I got pretty excited cause he told me that it meant that one grows faster too.
Back home I put it into the soil, watered it and just stared at it for so many hours I fell asleep on the couch next to it instead of in my bed. When I woke up the next morning I couldn't believe what the fuck I was seeing, there was this maybe 20 centimeter palm tree looking plant coming out of it. Thoughts racing I was thinking back to that cartoon of that magic bean cartoon and wondered if I had stumbled upon one of them as well somehow. I ran to tell my parents that we should replant it outside cause this baby is gonna wreck the house if we keep it inside only to see my dad not being able to keep a straight face as I said it and it slowly dawned on me that he had put the plant in there himself.
Alright so this may not really be the best story for the question, but I couldn't really come up with something else I believed when I was a kid. I might add a comment if I do but interested to hear if you remember something. :D
PS. Do you think #asksteem would make for a good community if I got one started and curated it? r/askreddit is one of the most popular subreddits and one can spend hours there reading through content and comments are amazing most of the time. Let me know!
