When I was 7 or 8 I noticed those orange balls on some wires going across open fields and asked my aunt what they were, and because of what she told me I believed until I was 17 years old that they were basketballs kids had got stuck up there on the wire.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- When I was young I believed that the windmills found in farmers fields were used to keep the cows cool.— Linda
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon