When i was a little kid, i used to go to the beach often in the summer, and reasoned that the ocean waves were what caused the earth to rotate. I therefore concluded that by getting in the way of the waves (swimming) i was making summer last a little longer.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- I used to think that a company had boats all over the world making waves, and airplanes making cloudsAnon
- when I was a child I thougt taht sea waves are the result of whales swimming— waleed bokhari
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy