When I was in elementary school, I really wanted to be a cheerleader. I had seen some cheerleaders perform and they had put tiny bells on their shoes by threading them through the shoelaces. I thought all cheerleaders wore bells on their shoes all day long.

I decided that I would be "cool" like the cheerleaders, so I put a bell on each of my shoes. I wore these 2 small bells to school on my shoes the next day. I discovered it wasn't so "cool" to have bells on your shoes at school!!! I jingled with every step as I walked the halls of school. It became so annoying to everyone that my teacher asked me to try and walk softly, so I wouldn't make so much noise!!! How embarassing!!! LOL.

Sharon

I used to believe that if someone hit my back while I was making a face, my face would stick that way forever! One time my Grandma hit my Grandpa when he was making faces at me during dinner. He pretended to be stuck. I am still traumatized!

Jenette

I used to believe when I was little (Because my mom told me), that when I pulled a funny face (Like stick my tongue out etc), if the wind came up and blew on my face, my face would stay like that forever! It would freeze it there. Needless to say, I never went outside on windy days...just incase...

Wanita

I was told that if the wind change directions as you were yawning your face would freeze that way. I was so afraid to yawn.

Anon

When I was growing up I lived in a very white community and had only heard of indians in the context of pocahotas (sp?). So anyway when I was about 6ish I got ill and my mom took me to the doctors and before we went in my mom thought it would be a good idea to tell me about the indian nurse I was going to be seeing. When I walked in I was a little confused and when the nurse walked over to her desk I asked my mom 'where's her feather?'.

what harm the television can do

I used to believe that people with my name looked like me. I thought after all, if they had the same name as me, they must be my twin.

Liz

I used to believe that jean jackets were made out of metal, and that's why they were blue. Jeans weren't, just jean jackets.

Jamie

That when you paid so much money for weight-loss programs, that you paid all the money on a needle to peirce your tummy and let the fat pour out. I believed that till around ten.

Sam

I grew up in the South. I truly believed that when the adults around me referred to a "colored" person, that they were indeed colored...all the wonderful colors I could imagine as a child.

One day my stepmother said we were going to go over to a "colored" ladies house. I got so excited! I couldn't wait to see someone with all the colors of the rainbow.

Anon

When i was very little, one of my preoccupation was looking at pictures in magazines (also finding the letter "z" in everything written). Somehow, i found many pictures that i strongly believed to be of my mom. I was very convinced it was her in those magazines. Later in my life i found out that my mom was not Elizabeth Taylor :))

Michelle

Years ago I thought old ladies pushed hat-pins through their heads to secure their hats.

Mike B.

For Christmas, when I was 5, I got a Baby So Beautiful, which is an American doll that is designed in millions of ways, which means it can look like any little kid. I got one that looked exactly like me brown hair, green eyes and big red lips. I thought for a while that my sister and I (who got one too) were famous and everyone was buying our dolls. This happened until I looked at the catalogue.

Kate

My mom told me not to do certain things like "make faces" or it would freeze like that. I thought that is where mannequins come from. Adults & kids who had just froze like that because they were doing things they weren't supposed to do.

Anon

When I was 10 i believed that you had another person who looked like you on the other parts of the world.

Amy

When I was a kid my dad told me that in a package of socks there was a right sock and a left sock.

Christina

My dad has rather bulbous lips, not huge but largish. My mum has really thin lips so when I was little I thought that boys had fat lips and girls had thin ones. kind of strange I didn't notice anyboys with thin lips.... ( or vice versa since my mum says my sister has "kissable" lips". She's only nine!)

razza matazz

I used to believe that football players held their shoulders up in a 'shrug' position so as to look tough to the other team. I thought that they must get real tired of holding them up by the end of the game.

DJ

When I was about 6 years old and I first heard of "facelifts," I thought the operation involved a complete face transplant. This was in the early '70s. So, when I heard Phyliis Diller had one I thought she'd have a completely different face and somebody else would be walking around with her old one.

Loisada

when i was younger i used to think that nude beaches were beaches with square 5 feet tall hedges, and a man and a woman got in to one of these edges, took off all their clothes and talked etc... in private

Anon

If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.

Jo V...NL