When I was about 8 or 9 I asked my father why I couldn't drink sea water. "Because it is salty", he replied. To which I, as any child of my age would do, asked "why is the sea salty?".
His answer was as follows: "The sea is salty because there was a giant who was way out at sea having dinner when he knocked the salt off his table into the sea, and made the sea salty."
To me, this made perfect sence as a child, and of course satisified my insatiable curiosity.
When I was at school I, intent on demonstrating my new found knowledge, proudly told the other children why the sea was salty, and much to my dismay they laughed at me.....but, I was still positive for a few years later that there was a giant out there waiting for his dessert.
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- When I was a child, I used to believe that adding sugar would lower the over-salty taste of a meal.— Francois
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- i used to believe that the hard toe caps on rugby boots were made from giant ants found in the amazon!— eryll
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~