I live in a town next to a large ICI chemical plant where my grandad worked. There was often a stink floating in the air and grandad told me that the smell was coming from a furnace in which all the worker's sweaty socks were burned every day so they didn't have to wash them. I was 27 before I thought 'hang on a minute....'
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- My Grandad told me he invented carrots.— Nicole
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- I use to believe that your hair grew because you wash i.e like watering a plant — HJON
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller