I used to believe that the bright red linoleum which showed through the tear in the lino which covered it in my Gran's hallway was actually fire and that if I touched it it would burn my hand.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- I thought Napoleon invented linoleum.— Steve Murphy
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- My gran told me that if you drank vinegar your brains would dry up!!!— Sam
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney