I asked my mum why birds don't get electrocuted when they perch on power lines. She told me birds wear rubber boots. I was content with this explanation and imagined birds getting out of their nests every morning and putting on their boots.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- when I was little I was afraid of flies until mom told me they were baby birds!— Lisa
- i used to think flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n
- I used to believe that birds subsisted on bread.— C.C.
- Birds in the sky would come down and attack me with their beaks.— Bianca
- i used to beleve that when i grow up i'll be able to fly just like birds— tomba