When I was young, I loved getting the free balloons at IHOP at breakfast. One day, while getting out of the car upon returning home, the balloon escaped, and drifted quickly upward and eventually out of sight. I was distraught. Since my grandparents were on vacation in Arizona, my mother told me that "All balloons go to Arizona" and that my grandparents would bring it back. When I asked them about it, they played along. I believed that balloons go to Arizona until I was a teenager, and I cried when I realized I'd been duped.
A childhood belief about toys
others believed things like this
- I thought it was illegal to own a minivan if you lived in Arizona. I have no idea how I thought that.— Julia
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- i use to believe....that cement trucks carried balloons to the Bozo circus....lol— Laura
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- I used to believe that my grandparents' world was in black and white.— Sara Serés