After watching Tiswas or Multi-Coloured Swap Shop of a Saturday morning - sandwiched into the sofa, waiting for mother to drag us all out shopping - there was the boring television that followed.
A particularly disturbing episode of "It's the Wolf" was usually followed by an unending weather forecast, with sloppily-sticking magnetic pads.
Then it was time for Grandstand - the then grand but now somewhat delapitaded afternoon sports fest.
Raised in Epsom, at the foot of the hill that led up to the racecourse of Derby fame, I knew that the big tiered building at the end of the course straight after Tattenham Corner was called "The Grandstand".
Well, I put two and two together and naturally assumed that that was where the show was broadcast from.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- That "This morning" was "The Smorning"
And "This afternoon" was "The Safternoon"
Yeah....Anon - When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!
— Eomer83 - Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.Anon