I used to believe the sky was a big inverted bowl, and the horizon was where the "bowl" touched the land. We were not allowed to stray any farther than the curve in the road in each direction because my parents said "there was nothing to see out there anyway". I promised myself that when I was big enough, I would walk past the curve in the road, find the edge of the bowl, and lift it up to see if there was anything on the other side.
And then one day I had PROOF that the world was as limited as my parents said! My visiting aunt and uncle promised to take me for a drive in their new car. Their promise was forgotten until the very last minute, but I was determined to have my ride, so they drove me to the curve in the road, turned around, and came back. When I asked why, they said because the road didn't go any further than that. I was too short to see over the dashboard, so I fell for it. Heh.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon