One of my favorite TV shows was about a giant ball covered in lights that would be lowered onto the roof of a building while people below celebrated.
Every night I would ask my parents to let me stay up to watch it but usually they made me to to bed at 9:00, so I only got to see it perhaps once a year.
It wasn't until I was six that I figured out that the "ball dropping show" only came on once a year on New Year's Eve, explaining why I was allowed up until midnight to see it.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- Abba - Happy New Year
"Kangaroo year,
Kangaroo year..."— Santa Puncher - I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- My birthday was on a different day every year, assigned by my parentsAnon
- I used to think that your birthday changed every year, and that your parents just decided what day it was.— Daniel
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies