I used to think I could make televisions or radios using household materials. I gathered napkins, pieces of wood, toothpicks, and other random objects, and set about arranging them and hoping for the best. I figured I just had to position them in SOME way and it would work.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me that thunder was god re-arranging the furniture.— Dale
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- Different televisions contain different TV shows.— IMMarkotron
- I used to believe that old cars only played old music on thier radios.— Julie
- I used to think you had to be an adult to drink household chemicalsAnon
- I thought that when the lights went out, putting a candle behind the tv would make it work :)— Ricky