While doing the dishes one night my older brother told my younger one, who was about 7 or 8, how ships stayed afloat. In the bottom of all boats they had two big balloons. When they were full, they would float, when they were empty, they sank. My younger brother believed it until he was about 13, he read a picture book which was all about submarines and boats.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- You must break the bottom of egg shells after finishing a boiled egg or witches will use them for boatsAnon
- If you don't smash egg shells witches use them as boats.— Sarah
- I used to believe that one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!— Andrew
- I used to think that a company had boats all over the world making waves, and airplanes making cloudsAnon
- My brother that is 6 years younger than me used to believe that in seven years he would be older than me.Anon
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland