When I was about six or seven I remember running up to my dad and asking him how fast he thought I'd been moving. I heard "60 miles an hour". Can you imagine how proud I was? I boasted this to every kid in the playground over the next few months!
It was only a few years later - once we'd started looking at velocity at school - that I realised he must have said "six" not "sixty"...
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- I believed I could tap dance by moving my feet real fast. — Aussie
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I remember being told that thunder was just God moving his/her furniture around.— kipperfeet
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert