my favourite super hero was the green lantern so I asked my parents for a ring. they took me shopping and I found one that was shaped like home plate and had my initial carved on it.
when i was about 8 or 9 i was allowed to stay home for a couple of hours without a babysitter. so I zoned out in front of the television and flipped through the stations using the big brown box we used to have as a remote (3 rows of 12 or so rectangular buttons that you pressed down to get a new channel)
I ended up partially watching the Exorcist by myself. i say partially because i would press any other button quickly when it started to get too intense. However, I did manage to see enough of the movie to scare me into sleepless nights for almost a week. I would pull the covers over my head and clench the fist with the ring so tight that I would imagine a green lantern-type force field would suuround my bed - as long as my fist remained clenched.
A childhood belief about films
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- i used to believe that a carreer as a super hero was possibleAnon
- I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!— AntoineBoom
- When I first heard "The Exorcist," I thought that "The Exorcist" was something about exercising and work out.Anon
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty