when i was growing up in the sixies in Ireland my brothers and sisters used to tell me that airplains were German war planes and everytime a plane went by i ran to my house shouting THE GERMANS ARE COMING
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- That the white stuff coming out of aeroplanes meant that someone on the plane had just got married.Anon
- i believed like when i was 3 yrs. old i thought that air planes would come to your house to pick you up!— Brooke
- in this TV show i saw a snake coming up from the drain so everytime i take a shower i go really fast!— scared person
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica