Just been discussing this with DH after realising that DT1 thinks that putting on his coat in the morning magically makes the school bus appear.
We were remembering things we believed as children, some courtesy of adult fibs but others... who knows?
Here’s some of ours:
- That the kidneys in steak and kidney pie are not actually kidneys, they just have the same name
- That the moon is only a few metres above our heads (blame the grandparent who said the moon was the same size as the dining table, plus child logic)
- That all cats are female and all dogs are male, or (much weirder) that poos are gentlemen and wees are ladies (this was me, and I have literally no idea where this came from - I even remember imagining a cartoon poo in a top hat, so I’m wondering if it was something I saw in a book?)
Obviously aside from Santa, Easter bunny etc, what obviously bonkers things did you believe as a child?