Remember the emergency alert system? How it would always say, "This is a test. Had this been a real emergency, this alarm would be followed by safety instructions" or something to that effect? As a kid I never EVER heard them say, "It's for real this time, no fooling around!" So naturally I assumed it was the government's practical joke on us and that the president and all his men were sitting in their offices giggling at how stupid we were.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- Anyone else think that Emergency Exits were special exits for some celebrity called 'Emer Gency' to use?— Mark Yardley
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - i used to believe dragon ball z was real
and namek was in another dimension
and every show on tv was realAnon - I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa