As a very little child (in early 1990's), I watched once one of the episodes of brilliant old TV show "Alternatywy 4" (1982), where female character turned on old russian TV-set with light bulb, talking to the her dear neighbour through the hole in wall :), and then when she was still talking, light bulb explosed (it was quite common with that sort of devices), and lighted flowers in the wase. Of course before she noticed that, the fire had already spread at the other furnitures, she started yelling through the window that she's about to burn up etc - it was very dramatic scene for me back then. I asked my dad why did that TV explosed, he explained it happen when you turn TV on being alone in home, and of course I believed him. When they had to left me alone in home, he advised me to turn on video with cartoons so I wouldn't be bored, and I was shocked how can he be such irresposnible - the house would after all burn off then!
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- In "God Bless America" I thought it was "With the light from a bulb" instead of "from above."— Carol
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to believe that the priest was God because everytime a child cried, he wouldn't be talking.Anon
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill