Our church had a charity drive to collect clothing for the poor. My mother bought a pair of mittens to donate. I asked her, "But what if the person who gets them lives somewhere where it's not cold enough to need mittens?" She explained that these clothes were all for people <i>right there in our town!</i> I had no idea that there were poor people so close to us - I thought they all lived in faraway countries, like on the "Save the Children" commercials.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- I used to believe that a brothel was where poor people used to go to get free broth.— Rob. UK
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c