When I was young I had one of those little electronic robot building kits. What would normally happen is you would plug wires into a battery pack that would run the control panel for your little robotic arm or whatever.
Well, one day the batteries went dead so I needed another way to get power to it. EVERY kid knows that you can't plug wires (or knifes or anything dangerous) into a wall socket so I went out into the garage and found the longest extension cord I could find. The longer the better, I assumed.
I figured by the time all the electricity when through the entire extension cord it would be safe for the robot arm.
I proceeded to catch my bed on fire.
A childhood belief about toys
others believed things like this
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that bird perched on telephone wires to keep their feet warmAnon
- I used to believe that drinking vinegar would turn you into a robot.Anon
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- My friend managed to convince a gulliable kid at various stages of school that he was superman and a robot.— naff