I didn't quite get the concept of mechanical printing as a kid. I figured whoever wrote books must have been quite exacting and meticulous with his pencil to make all the little letters perfect and regular.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that there were two kinds of "P": the regular one, and the elemeno P.
L-M-N-O-P.— Megan