I was always scared to walk over bridges, especially wooden ones. I thought that they would collapse on me (probably got this idea from watching too much disaster tv or something). One day, when I refused to walk over a bridge, my mom told me to walk across where the nails were, cause underneath the nails were the beams that held the bridge up, so if the bridge collapsed I would still be standing on the beams and be safe. This made perfect sense to me and I never had a problem again. I guess it never occured to me that the beams would probably fall too. The funny part is, I'm now 20 years old and I still find myself walking on the nails whenever I cross a wooden bridge. :)
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- I used to believe that George Washington died and turned into a bridge.— lara dean
- I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington— Shayne
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- I used to think the song "Walk this way" by Arosmith went horse and sleigh insted of singing walk this way.— Derek
- I used to believe you could walk on clouds. And you would be able to walk in space on the edge of the world.— Alex