If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c.