When I was young, my mom would always take us on a car ride which would pass oil fields and windmills. When we would ask what they were for, she told us, "oil pumps make the world go around, and the windmills send it in the right direction." We believed her for years.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- When I was young I believed that the windmills found in farmers fields were used to keep the cows cool.— Linda
- One of my friends told me that when he was a kid he thought windmills were used to keep cows cool!— Julie
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA
- I used to think that all Dutch people wore clogs and lived in windmills— American
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima