My teacher told me that if you drew two straight lines on a page that were not parallel lines, they would eventually cross one another if you made them long enough. She said that if the page was not big enough, you could extend the lines on the floor and you would see that eventually they would cross. I thought I was smarter than mathematicians because I knew that if you needed a lot of space to extend the lines, you could have to go around the world, in which case they would cross in two places! I thought I might win the Nobel Prize for my theory.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me