when i was around ten my family and i would visit our aunt's house a lot. she had a fireplace and we didn't so i wasn't used to them. in the winter her fireplace was always lit. it petrified me. i was convinced that at any moment the entire house would be a blaze. so i would tell my mother that i wanted to go outside and play even though there was nothing but a driveway and some trees. so i would stand in the driveway in the freezing cold for hours waiting for my family to burn up.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- I used to think that cockroaches would visit your house if you didn't brush your teeth.Anon
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob