When I was around 5 I got the kind of mines that blew up and the kind that people dug in for coal ect. Mixed up. I knew that the kind that exploded were pretty small so the idea thatc anyone could get in there was hard to picture so I figured miners were vrry tiny people.I was further confused when my dad said mining was a dangerous job because of the explosions which further reinforced my misconception.I remember imagining a line of little ant like miners filing into one of those round iron mines with the lumps on the outside through a tiny door while sad music played in my head.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the road sign "dangerous" was actually "dang-er-roos" a kind of bouncy marsupial— owen cash
- i used to picture jesus as a kind of cartoon Tarzan, swinging through the trees...— bex
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to wonder what kind of insect "uncles" were named after.
I had "Ants" figured out.— Kimberly in AZ - When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know