random beliefs
I use to believe if I ate something electronic Id have electric powers
I used to think the person who delivered Chinese food came all the way from China to do it.
because i always saw a lot of birds perched on telephone lines, i used to believe that they were built so that the birds could rest
I thought if someone asked something and said please you had no choice but to do it (I think my dad told me this once when I wouldn't do something)
There is large factory in the largest city near my hometown that has an impressive smokestack. When I was little, I thought that the factory was where clouds came from.
I thought an antimacassar was something that blew up macassars, which I assumed was something vaguely low class that rich people who had antimacassars hated.
I always heard that people went to the hospital when they were sick or hurt, so I believed that hospitals were only for people who had a disease called "sick or hurt."
When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets.
My brother, Paul, used to believe that hand dryers in public toilets were actually dragons and hence had a pathological fear of going into the loos in case he got eaten!
My grandfather was rather portly and had the habit of eating dessert before his dinner instead of after. As a child, I thought that was the reason for my grandpa's large size.
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