I used to watch my mother sew. I didn't know about the foot pedal that made the needle move, and she told me it was magic. When I didn't believe her at first, she would wave her fingers at it and say, "Go!" and it would. I had no alternative but to believe her.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!— Nate
- When I was a kid, I slept with my fists balled up because I thought if I didn't, E.T. would eat my fingers. — Brian
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan