I was 4 or 5 when I asked my Dad what the spires were on top of some of the sky scrapers in the city. We were in the car at the time and he thought I had pointed to a wrecking ball on another building. "That's a building destroyer" he said. For years afterwards I thought that skyscrapers were fitted with gigantic lasers, which disintergrated other buildings when they weren't needed anymore.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty