I believed that people actually worked inside the cooling towers. I thought that they must be really brave to stand there at the bottom of that massive, awe-inspiring vat and work away. I had dreams about these people all the time.
I never thought to ask anyone what cooling towers actually did.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cooling towers were really just cloud making machines— Dianne
- i used to believe that powers station cooling towers were where the clouds came fromAnon
- My sister used to think that the cooling towers of power staions were cloud factories— jozef
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- When I was little, I thought that Water Towers were full of dirty laundry. Why? I dont know.Anon
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku