When I was 5 or 6 my grandparents had some friend of theirs drop in during the afternoon. He was stumbling around the kitchen and fell into the frying pan, and my grandparents told me he was blind and couldn't see. Years later I asked my gramma who that blind guy was. She figured out a while later this was some neighbour who had gotten really drunk and been kicked out of his house by his wife. They told me he was blind so I wouldn't know he was so drunk. I never even guessed.
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- I was told that if you went to brd with your sox on you would go blind.— Frank L
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon
- i used to think that if you were blind you had to have your eyes closed. Anon
- I used to believe that if you were blind you could wear glasses and you'd be able to see again— Jane
- I used to think that if you closed your eyes, you convince others that you were blind.— katie B