For a while I wanted to be a animal trainer for films. Id seen Mary Poppins and thought it was so cool how somebody had got the robin to sit on her finger and sing along with her.
Eventually I forgot about this ambition, until many years later I was watching Mary Poppins with my family. Along came the robin, and I felt a surge of loss to see it was clearly animatronic (and oversized). I complained that I was CERTAIN the robin had been real.
My family now point out any animatronic or CIG animal on TV and tell me it's not real. I'm 18.
(although there ARE animal trainers for TV.... just not for the animal I thought :( )
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- i thought "two pence a bag" from feed the birds from mary poppins was "toppins of ag"Anon
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to think my grandma was THE Mary Poppins.Anon
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon