At the age of ten, I had a fantastic idea for walking on water. I put inflatable arm-bands around my ankles and stepped 'onto' the swimming pool. Luckily my dad was there to rescue me as I dangled upside-down under water :)
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.— Mimi
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl