when I was about 10 I used to sit in Benhill Rec, a park in Sutton, surrey. In the distance I could see what I believed to be the eiffel tower. It wasn't till a few years later I realised it was a electricity pylon in Croydon
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- my dad said to me once that if I swallowed toothpast one day I would die! I believed it till I was 12!!!— Floobloom
- Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.Anon
- i used to believe airplanes never land and would just fly forever, i believed in this till 8-9— Tuncay
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip