When I was probably about four years old, I was at this home-improvement shop with my parents. The shop had rolls of colored chains there, like the kind that you hang a swing or a bird feeder with or chain a door closed or something. But I didn't know what they were for, and I asked my mum and she told me that they were used to hang naughty children from the ceiling by their feet and let them hang there forever. I actually believed this for years and years until my dad bought similar chains and used them to hang a swing in the back yard. All that worrying for nothing!
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I used to think that swing music was called that because you listened to it when playing on the swing set.Anon
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole