Once in second grade, (I thought) a teacher told me "If you don't throw your trash away in the trash can, the world will stop spinning." I certainly didn't want that to happen! Her scare tactic worked good. At 24, I still make sure my trash gets thrown away properly.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- I used to think that you could feel the world spinning.Anon
- I used to think topping yourself meant killing yourself by spinning upside down, like a spinning top!!— Natasha
- i used to think that everyone else in the world were robots, put here to make sure i was good— andy
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway)