The first time I went on an airplane, I overheard my parents saying something about being "bumped" when you flew on an airplane, and I heard them saying you got wherever you were going faster if you were bumped. That was about all I heard. I had no idea what being "bumped" meant, so naturally, I assumed that it meant you were, quite literally, bumped to your destination. I figured that you got on the plane, and the plane got on top of a big trampoline, and the plane bounced so high that when you landed, you wound up where you wanted to go. Either that, or your family got on a big trampoline (without any plane or anything to keep you safe) and bounced to your destination along a big, long trail of trampolines. I wasn't quite sure how that got you there faster, though.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- That the white stuff coming out of aeroplanes meant that someone on the plane had just got married.Anon
- I thought that Heaven was literally up in the sky and you could fly there in a plane— Nate
- I used to believe in the plane there were birds to make it fly— laura 401
- I used to believe that Florida was up in the clouds and that's why we had to take a plane to get there.Anon
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague