When I was about 5 my mother had an evening job packing biscuits at Peek Freans factory in South London. She told me one day that the supervisor used to come round regularly to tell the workers to whistle to make sure they weren't eating any of this biscuits. I believed her and told people the story for the next 20 years or so. Then she told me she'd been joking.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.— ahab
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.Anon
- My mun told me that if I ate my breadcrusts I would be able to whistle.— Iain
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I used to believe that clouds were made from a factory chimney that was south of my home town. — bynbyn