when i was little and on a family outing or trip
we were driving past a cemetary my dad would alwaysmake that corny old joke "thats the dead centre of [Birmingham/Chester/Liverpool etc]"
but i took it seriously and for years (and i mean, til like my early teens) i beleived that cemetaries had to be built in the actual centre of a town. like it was a rule or something.
until of course, me and some mates were on a school trip when we were 13 and got lost in the middle of birmingham, we knew that the train station in new street mustbe pretty centrally located so i helpfully suggested "well lets just look for the graveyard, thats the dead centre of town, the station should be nearby"
they had to point out the joke for about 5 minutes whilst laughing hysterically before i would beleive it wasnt actually true, i kept saying, no really, my dad told me, and was even really tempted to make up something like, hes a town planner or an architect or something to save face. oh god i am so embarrassed by this one!!!!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- We were told that the bread crust is more healthy than the centre.— Arnon
- I used to believe that there was only one lighthouse in the world and it was at the centre of the earth. Anon
- i used to think only children whose parents don't want them anymore goes to childcare centre.— Long long ago
- I used to believe a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There
- I used to believe that picadilly circus was like a giant circus in the centre of london.— ãhnn???