My sister and I once insisted that my parents buy Mrs. Butterworth's Pancake Syrup, and when they did, we sat at the table and waited for her to talk.
That was a lesson about the truth of advertising!
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- In childhood, I waited behind the theatre, after the Cinema, hoping to see the artists came out .
— mprnair. - I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.— Charlie
- I used to believe my parents were brother and sister, and that everybody's parents were brother and sister.— Rachael
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy