When I was little I must have asked my dad why birds don't get electrocuted when they sit on the wires. His answer was "because the electricty only runs on the bottom of the wires". I believed that well into my 20's until I learned differently!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that bird perched on telephone wires to keep their feet warmAnon
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- for my little sis -
Paul McCarty song "Band on the Run" but when she sang it it was "Man has the Runs"Anon - When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.— Sam
- I used to believe that your bottom teeth were actually in your bottom— jez