When I was 4 I ran in my first race in honour of the Queen at our local silver jubilee party,all was going well I was in front until I got to the tape and stopped then everyone ran past me through the tape and I was last they gave me a threepnee bit (dull old money when your 4)whilst the winner got 15p!Nobody told me you had to run through the bloody string!
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon