When I was about 5, my family went to New Hampshire and saw the Old Man of the Mountain. My parents were pointing at it and asking me if I could see the old man. Well, here I was thinking there really was this old man up there and wondering why we were bothering him, staring at him like that!
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- For the longest time I believed New Hampshire was New Hamster and that was where all the hamsters came from. — Giny
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- I used to think that the chorus of "mountain song" by jane's addiction was in a different language— nothing'sshocking
- I was convinced that hot air sinks. Why else are mountain tops cold, and Death Vally is so hot?— Not-my-wife
- I used to believe that clothes are invisible humans just staring at us— Elizabeth
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith