At 4-6 years old, whenever I heard a fire-truck siren in the distance, I would run outside with a plastic fire-hat and axe. I assumed that if the firemen saw me in uniform, they would pick me up in their truck so I could help them battle a blaze.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- i used to believe that when i grew up i was going to become the wheel of a truckAnon