When my son was about 3, I used to give him Ready-Brek for breakfast. Then he suddenly started refusing to eat it, and wouldn't tell me why. Finally, after a week or so of refusing and my asking "Why?" he finally burst into tears and said, "I don't want that little man to come!" It all clicked--Ready Brek had started running a TV commercial that showed a smiling little man emerging from the steam of the bowl, and my little boy obviously thought he was real, and would appear over every bowl of Ready Brek.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- I believed that if I ate Ready Brek, I'd glow like in the TV ad. — Why Aren't I Glowing?
- I used to believe that after eating Ready Brek I would glow, but that only adults could see it.— michelle
- When I was a child I used to believe that cows gave ready butter.— Bane
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- I used to believe that lizards were little dinosaurs ready to enlarge of they touched the water — Mark
- I used to believe that the Super Bowl was a bowling tournament.— Angela