My mom told me the falames of the gas release pipes above refineries were there to keep birds warm. I always wondered why I never spotted any birds hovering around them. But I was an adult before I consciously knew differently!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- when I was little I was afraid of flies until mom told me they were baby birds!— Lisa
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- i used to think flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n
- I used to believe that birds subsisted on bread.— C.C.
- Birds in the sky would come down and attack me with their beaks.— Bianca
- i used to beleve that when i grow up i'll be able to fly just like birds— tomba