well, when i was EXTREAMLY YOUNG (like in the early 1940's) my brother told me that if i stood by the coal truck long enough and get covered in soot, then i'd become a pice of coal.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that coal from stockings was santa's poop because i was bad— dylan mcdonald
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!— Helen, Cumbria
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat