My dad was pretty sick of the ‘why’ question by the time I was 5 or 6 so he started making things up just for a laugh. In Kindergarten or 1st grade we were discussing how a thermostat works and I corrected the teacher because she had it all wrong. My father told me that there was a little man down in the cellar in the furnace and when he got cold he turned it on and when it got warm he turned it off. The thermostat just told him we were a little cold so he could warm us up. I refused to shut up about the little man in the furnace until my teacher called home and my dad had to tell me the truth as far as I could understand it. You have to realize that my father was the smartest man I the world and he would never lie to me.
Ya…I did the same to my daughter for years :)
A childhood belief about basements
others believed things like this
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- I used to think if you caught a cold during summer, it was called a "hot".— Brandon Campbell