As a child I was always frightened when we went camping, as we had to drive through a canyon to get to our usual spot. I was convinced a large rock was going to detach itself from the canyon wall and crush our car. I wasn't afraid of real canyon dangers, such as a flood or landslide, just a huge random boulder.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I was convinced that Indians had dug the Grand Canyon.— Tom Sackett
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon