Just as I was starting to disbelieve in Father Christmas my parents got a neighbour to dress up as him and fill the stocking at the end of my bed. He trod on, and smashed, the airfix planes I had layed as a trap and woke me. I was too paralysed with belief and fear to apprehend him and carried on believing for a few years.
A childhood belief about father christmas
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would be paralysed if I sat on the floor for more than 20 minutes— bittergrass
- I used to believe that dandelions where baby lions and if you trod on one it would bite your foot.— alice
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- I used to believe that Madonna's "dress you up in my love" was "dress you up in nylon."Anon
- Do you really mean to tell me that father Christmas is a myth?
Finally......— Peter (Aged 70) - I used to think that Father Christmas stole toys from Smyths.— Shovel Tem