The first time my father took me fishing in a boat, I panicked and cried when he started to put down the anchor. I was certain that dropping that heavy weight overboard was going to pull us down with it. He gave up trying to convince me and we drifted aimlessly with the wind instead. I blame the Roadrunner cartoons.
A childhood belief about cartoons
others believed things like this
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- Every time it thundered and rained I used to believe that God was passing wind and "peeing"!Anon
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira