I used to believe...

A while ago I found a really funny website called iusedtobelieve.com, which is basically just stories of what people used to believe when they were younger. Well now I can add my own...I used to believe that hot air balloons were attached to the ground by a long rope to stop them from floating off too far...but I only found out that this wasn't true last week!! *hides head in shame* I suppose it is a bit stupid thinking about it, but I'm sure thats what they did on Postman Pat or something like that, that I saw when I was younger so I always thought it was true! I couldn't understand why my parents were laughing at me so much when I said something about the bit of rope atached to the balloon...