When I was about 5 years old I used to think that the loud speakers you see at marathons (the cone shaped ones) which contain a bottle-shaped object in their centre actually contained the champagne that the winner of the race would receive at the end.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that scones were cone-shaped because the word is sCONES. — scone
- I used to believe that the oddly-shaped clouds were made from oddly-shaped sheep— Dickson
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.Anon
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- I used to believe that England was shaped like a Sewing Machine Box, Germany was a Smiling Sun. Anon