When I was a kid, my mom was the first to tell me about the "ball drop" in New York on New Year's Eve. I'd never seen the ball drop before, so I assumed it meant that someone standing on the roof of a building in Times Square would throw the ball into the crowd below! I was watching TV before the ball drop started and they mentioned that the ball weighed over 10,000 pounds. I was alarmed, because throwing something that size into a crowd would kill people! Luckily, my preconceptions were wrong. There is no throwing, and the "drop" is actually a controlled descent.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza