When I was about nine or ten, I heard for the first time people talking about someone "putting her head in the oven" to kill herself. Of course it's something to do with breathing in the oven fumes, but I didn't know that. I thought if you wanted to kill yourself you had to cook your head, and when it got cooked through completely, you would die.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!— danielle
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.— wumpmugg
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to think that burgulars used to kill people if they ate burgers — angel
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima