my best friend once told me that birds didnt get electrocuted when they sat on pylons because they hopped from foot to foot very quikly.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- When i was little i used to think that my foot was a "naughty part" that no one else was supposed to see.Anon
- When I was little I was conviced if you said twinkee in a mirror 3 time a foot would appear. Anon
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris
- that using athletes foot cream would instantly make me an athlete. — Kate