My neighbour's 20-years-older-than-she brother had her convinced completely that when sunlight glinted off aeroplanes, that meant all of the glass windows of the plane had just burst, and the glass would fall down directly into her eyes. I thought she was daft when she solenmly told me this (I was 6 and she was 8), and I was astonished the first evening I played with her outside, a plane flew over and was caught in the light of the setting sun, glittering off its windows, and she threw herself facedown to the ground in hysterics, believing the glass was heading in her direction to blind her.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- That the white stuff coming out of aeroplanes meant that someone on the plane had just got married.Anon
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- if you broke the glass on the tv, the cartoons could come out, or you could go in there with themAnon