random beliefs

I used to believe that the spinning concrete trucks carried condiments around. The yellow ones carried mustard, the red ones - ketchup, and so on.

Anon (from food : general)

I used to believe that the tiny bits of food left in the gravy when you've finished eating were calories. I knew that eating too many calories was a bad thing, so I always made sure I left some.

Nick (from food : dangerous food)

I read in one of my books that the T Rex used its small arms for preying. I read this as "praying", and wondered how it could get those tiny arms together around its huge body.

K.C. (from religion : prayers)

I used to believe fog was caused by cows smoking cigars. How could mom be lying?!

La Duchesse (from nature : weather)

when i was young my dad would say that "christmas was around the corner" and so i would ride my bike to the end of the block and around the bend looking for snow and christmas lights.

jessie (from make-believe : father christmas)

I thought that the TV show "Tomorrow's World" would tell me what would happen to me the next day. This was a short-lived belief, cos I watched it ...

Bryan (from media : tv shows)

I used to think that the second exhaust pipe on certain cars was for the sick to flow out of when somebody had vomited in the car. Don't ask me how the sick reached the pipe!

Tomethy (from transport : cars)

I used to think that once you got so old, if you were female you lived at the beauty parlor and slept under the hair dryers because my great-grandmother had had one in her house.

Anon (from grown-ups : getting older)

I used to believe that the kidneys are showers for the red blood cells; the water we drink washes the blood cells to clean them and the sewage goes to the bladder.

Faith (from body functions : general)

I used to believe that all my energy "came from my nipples and my back" I literally said that to my parents.

Eleanor R (from body functions : general)