My dad made be believe that picture adverts for rufuse skips in the local paper were actually lorries that transported erect tents (upside down).
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon
- my friend thought that the film 'the hulk' was about the jolly green giant from the sweetcorn adverts.— patticus
- i used to believe that a volcano was an upside-down UFO in disguise— Sally
- I used to believe that if you ate a grape upside down it would come out your nose.— Cath
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.