Do you have any weird beliefs that you've come to just sort of accept in your mind? I'm not talking about ideological stuff, I'm talking about stupid little things that, somehow, you become totally convinced of over the years — usually because you haven't received any evidence to the contrary. Perhaps because it's impossible to do so!
I have a few of these, but the one that sticks in my mind the most is this:
Toast doesn't stay warm for as long as it did when I was a kid.
There's no rational reason for this to be true in any way. If it was true, that would suggest a fundamental shift in the laws of physics, or at the very least a shift in the average ambient temperature of an average family home. But no; I'm absolutely convinced that toast does not stay warm for as long as it did when I was a kid.
It's entirely possible that this is nostalgia goggles talking, of course; fond memories of sitting around the kitchen table with my family (and cat, who was inevitably sitting on the heating vent, hoping something tasty would be dropped for her) and having a nice breakfast. But no, I'm absolutely, 100% convinced that when I had toast at home, it stayed warm rather than going cold almost immediately after removing it from the toaster.
Maybe I've been toasting wrong for my entire adult life and my parents actually had some secret technique. Maybe the toaster I grew up with — which lasted a very long time, since I believe it was already fairly old when I first became aware of it — was actually some sort of crazy powerful monstrosity rather than today's energy-efficient devices.
Whatever the reason, I believe that toast stayed warmer longer when I was a kid.
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