when i was little, for some reason i was convinced that vincent van gogh cut off his ear because he didn't want to hear the traffic outside because he thought it was distracting. it didn;t occur to me until much later that he lived long before cars were invented.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I uswed to believe that as long as someone lived to be 100, it was ok and you didn't have to be sad about it.Anon
- I used to believe my nieghboor jose invented the language spanish and he got rich and bought cars— Thomas
- i used to beleive that a traffic jam was wen cars got stuck in jam!Anon
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah
- I thought the “Slippery When Wet” traffic sign was a car that had grown long bendy legs.Anon