As children, my brother and I used to love playing hide-and-seek with my dad. But he always had the best hiding spot. He would go to the furnace room and call our names into the furnace. We would be upstairs on the floor looking into the vents believing that somehow he had squeezed himself into the air vents.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- I used to believe that sharks lived under the pools where the air vents were. — Carol
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- I used to believe that some first names were specifically for children and some were specifically for adults.— Marco
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc