When I was a little girl I learned about the Holocaust. I was probably too young to know about these horrors because sometimes I couldn't get the images out of my head. I knew that people had been killed in gas chambers and didn't realize there are different types of gas. When we would go to the gas station and dad would put gasoline in the car, I would try to hold my breath the whole time - but I could never do it. I thought my dad was very brave to put the gas in our car. I thought that gas station workers were extremely brave to be doing their jobs. I assumed that because they were exposed to gas for long amounts of time that they didn't live long.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- Didn't Jesus say "And lead us not into Thames Station!"— Chris - Sheffield
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to believe that I was the only person in the entire world who knew about my favorite ratio station.— Gillian