when I was young, I was told that Cornish Pasties were made so that you could get a whole meal into a small package that you could drop down a Cornish mineshaft. I finally realised it would break when it hit the bottom when I was nineteen.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- You must break the bottom of egg shells after finishing a boiled egg or witches will use them for boatsAnon
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- When I was a kid my dad told me that in a package of socks there was a right sock and a left sock.— Christina
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john