When I was little, vans all had those metal ladders on the back and a luggage rack, with metal railings, on top. I believed there was a swimming pool on top of the van. A swimming pool was the only place I'd seen ladders or railings quite like that. (Plus, I was obsessed with pools in the first place.) I remember staring very hard at vans in front of us, hoping to see a little water sloshing out.
My mother tried to tell me the truth, but I didn't want to believe it. I wanted to ask some van owner to let me climb up and at least see if there was a pool up there, but it never happened.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2