My neighbor convinced me that if an airplane or a helicopter landed in our garden, my house would be blown away. Needless to say I was terrified of airplanes??
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish