We had a fridge with an unmarked switch inside. After I had flipped the switch a few times (turned off the defrost settings? Turned off the fridge? I dont know...) my sister told me that flipping the switch turns the neighbors house upside down. (!) I believed her until I was about 5, at which point I performed an experiment (flipped the switch and ran outside), and was very, very relieved to find the neighbor's house right-side-up.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.Anon
- i used to believe that the moon was the sun flipped over!!— lay lay
- When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon