My mother always told me that when we turned on a light switch and the lightbulb blew out, that I we "turned it on too hard". I was in my 20's before I learned the truth.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina