I thought the word "current" only applied to electricity. One day when I was maybe 6 or 7, I went on a nature hike, and the guide started talking about the current of a stream that was flowing through the park. I concluded that the stream must have had electric eels in it.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- row row row your boat gently down the stream...merrily merrily merrily merrily life's a butter bean.— bleeslady
- I thought "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was a somewhat casual manual for astronauts.— Katya
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- 'To Be Announced' in the TV guide was a film that was on all the time!— Clare