When I was about eight my family went on an excursion to Maryland. On the way we passed a huge black dome, and curious, I asked my mother what it was. She informed me that it was a prison for the very worst criminals. The guard at the top would open the lid, and just throw you in. There was no cells, or bars or rules. All the inmates just fended for themselves. I thought this was just the scariest thing ever, and whenever we drove to Maryland after that I would wonder how they survived in that big black dome. Years went by, until I was well into my teens before it occured to me that it was not the dome of death, but a water tower...
A childhood belief about water towers
others believed things like this
- Maryland was actually a huge amusement park, i.e. Merry-Land, like Disneyland. — Julianne
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- that Worzel Gummidge was the scariest thing on television... and the daleks of course. — tracy g
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena