I used to think that the Bookmakers made books but could not understand why there were so many of them and they all seemed to have stained glass windows of horses. I was 18 before I found out it was a betting agents and that Scotland wasn't some great Literary Capital of the world.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I just to think that Norway was the capital of the world— Elin Norway
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- When I was little, I thought that Amsterdam was the world capital of hamsters!— CountryWay
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh