When I was a kid I was completely mystified about how the refrigerator light turned on at the exact moment you opened the door. I formulated the theory that there was a little man in the fridge who turned on the light as you opened the door. Also, if you did something bad like leaving the fridge door open or leaving the milk carton on the counter, I was convinced that he would punish you by making your favourite foods in the fridge go bad.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- When i was little I used to think that if you opened a milk carton on the wrong end you would get arrested— Erin
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle