When I was a child my parents told me that a section of hose pipe we had in our garden was the same hose as my grandad had at his house (about 60 miles away).
What they meant of course was that the hose had been cut into two pieces, but I spent years totally confused as to how our bit of hose could join up to the bit at his house so far away!
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to think being on holiday meant that you were moving house temporarily, like with a change of address.Anon
- i used to believe that the no outlet signs meant that noone in that section of the street had electricityAnon
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon