Although I am too young to remember the old trams in Britain (except in Blackpool), my parents and I have been involved with the National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire for many years and I have been going there from an early age. When I was small I thought the tram drivers just had to turn the controller handle round and round as if it were a coffee grinder, and that the controller handle made the wheels go round and round. So whenever my parents got me to grind some coffee for them in the coffee grinder, I liked to pretend I was driving a tram!
A childhood belief about trains
others believed things like this
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- i thought going to school was getting on the bus and driving round all day until they dropped you off. Anon
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- I always refused to eat coffeecake because I thought it was made with coffee grounds. Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.