I once told my sister, when she was about 6, that she was being too noisy and I couldn't concentrate on my work. She, really believing she was being helpful, advised me to play a blank tape to myself on a Walkman so that I wouldn't hear her!
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - i used to believe that if your seatbelt was un-done the car wouldn't move or work at allAnon
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I still believe that if I really concentrate, I can stop my heart from beating.— Patrick
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie