Dandelions

Because I was a weird child, I refused to make a wish on dandelions when I was a little kid.  Why?  Because my dad told me that Dandelions were weeds, at about the same time that we learned in my science class that some plants have built in ways to travel through the wind to spread their seed....like dandelions.  

I put two and two together and thought that by blowing on dandelions you are spreading weed seeds!  Then I imagined that the way that this idea of making a wish on these weed flowers was started by a creepy man who wanted to sneakily make all little children blow their wishes on weeds and spread them like wildfire.

Is that wierd?

"children!  Blow on the dandelions and all of your wishes will come true!"

"Okay creepy man whatever you say"

...and the rest was history