When I was younger, my grandmother used to come visit us quite frequently. So in order to pick her up, we would go to the airport, and as I watched her get off the plane, the realization hit me that if she kept arriving from planes, she must obviously live in one! So from that day onward, when I saw an airplane in the sky, I would shout "Look, it's Mama (grandmother in Chinese)!" And the thing was my brothers, who were ten years older than me, did it, too! So I believed it for a long, long, long time. It wasn't until many hundreds of times later and then my riding an airplane for myself did I realize the error of my ways.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom