Until I was about fifteen, I genuinely thought that all gas stations had giant pipes from the refineries underneath them to bring them gas.
Then I saw a fuel truck and my childhood was destroyed.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I used to think Alsatian dogs were called 'Old Stations'.— Jen
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat