For some reason I thought the agitator of a washing machine was properly called "a donkey". I developed my own theory to explain this. I thought that in the days before electricity, people would run their washers by having a donkey run 'round the machine in circles and generate power. Then, the agitator in a modern machine was named in honor of the faithful clothes washing donkeys of old.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.— Kirsty Martindale
- i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!— Armani
- That song that goes:
I'll never let you go...
I thought he was singing:
Another machine gun...
Haha.— Kelle