When I was in third grade, I had lots of Playmobil toys (dolls and all the furniture and stuff for the world they live in) and one thing was a box that said No. 28 (number 28). I thought that said "No 28" as in 28 had been removed from the counting sequence. My image of 28 for some reason was this really nice teacher who taught all the lower numbers until she spontaneously exploded! Poor 28! To this day 28 is my favorite number (followed by 48 and 8, but I have no explanation for these).
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon
- i thought that we were all toys in a dolls house and giants playing with us was why we did what we did— Sarah
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon