In Junior's school (6-11 yrs old) we seemed to have loads of fire drills. I used to stand in the cold and quietly seethe at the stupidity of our teachers...
I was convinced for some reason that one of them had gone into the staff room during lessons and burnt a piece of toast which set off the fire alarm.
This might have been because this was how our smoke alarm at home always went off - I wondered how long it can take for someone to wave a newspaper under the fire alarm to shut it up so we could go back inside. It didn't even matter how many times we were told we were having a fire drill 'some time next month', I would invariably whisper to whoever was infromt of me in line 'they burnt their bloody toast again!'
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt