As a very young child in the early eighties, I had yet to recognized the United States was a relatively safe place to live. Gaining a healthy fear of bombs being dropped from planes from television footage about past wars, I would hide under trees, slides, or whatever else I could find that would shield me from being seen be anyone in a plane that would want to drop a bomb directly on ME. Of course it was completely irrational that anyone would have wanted to drop a bomb on me in particular, nor would I have been protected by a puny tree or playground slide if they had.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you flushed an aeroplane toilet the waste would just drop out of the plane.Anon
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor