When I was little, we passed through an area in Florida that had just had a lot of hurricane damage. A tall building had a lot of broken windows replaced, and each new window had an "X" across it. (I still don't know why). At the time, when I asked my dad, he said the hurricane did that. He meant the hurricane broke out the windows and they had to be replaced, but I thought he meant that the hurricane had a big crayon that marked an X on each window as it passed. How stupid of me.........
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I thought Hurricane Dennis (in 2005) and the character Dennis from the Spongebob movie were related somehow.Anon
- I used to think there was a crayon called "window color." Turns out there isn't. — Not the brightest crayon in the box
- I thought the guy who got shot at the beginning of Gunsmoke was replaced every week by a live guy.— Monica
- I Believed that somthing took the bread from the toaster and replaced it with toast.— Shukun
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil