AUS02 said...This topic reminds me a little of the one where people think that trees make the wind blow. I first heard this when a guy rang up the radio station to say how his girlfriend had said 'the trees must be angry today' and he said 'why' and she said 'because it's so windy'! He was absolutely gobsmacked and could not believe she thought that the trees produced the wind. Then another guy rang up and said his girlfreind thought exactly the same thing. The radio announcers could not believe it either. Apparently it's quite common for kids to think this:
www.iusedtobelieve.com/nature/weather/trees_make_wind/trees_make_wind_d1.php Not sure of the connection to this topic, but I suppose they are both about a lack of understanding beyond what might appear at first to be the case. Luckily, as an evolving species, we're gaining and passing on information so each generation doesn't have to start from scratch. That's why we know more now that at any other time in history.
Keeping off topic for a bit, your story reminds me of my (now ex) wife. She believes that if you take a baby outside on a windy day it gives them 'wind'!
Many times after I had been looking after one of my sons in the day she would blame me for one of them being unsettled. All because of wind pains caused by me taking them for a walk in the pram in anything more than 10 knots. All the time her hairy lipped mother would be sat one her arse, the constant tut-tutting only interupted by her saying "she's right you know".
Glad those days are over.
Rant over, please continue back on topic (whatever it was)
