When I was a little girl, my parents' friend from England came to visit us. I asked him if it was a long drive to Canada and he said: "I flew!". I looked at him wide-eyed and asked : "Where's your wings??!" Then the adults burst out laughing and I was angry and still confused about how the crazy bird-man got to my house.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- i used to believe if a cat ate a bird the cat would eventually GROW WINGS!— nightmare
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon