After a spate of getting separated from my parents (lost) on outings, I was only allowed to go to the Royal Show if I wore an envelope with my name and address attached to my shirt with a safety pin (I now realise, so strangers would know who I was). I gripped my mum's hand and made sure that I didn't get lost the whole day, terrified of being found by a stranger and sent home in the mail.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- That the earth was inside a gigantic envelope, and the stars were pinholes in the envelope.— Kara
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- If a man wore his shirt out, I thought his wife was going to have a baby.Anon
- I used to believe that the Gettysburg Address was the mailing address of the White House.Anon