random beliefs

When I was a kid I overheard my parents talking about "The Baby Boom". I thought it was a problem of small children suddenly exploding.

Alan (from death : people)

I used to believe that in order to get to heaven after you died, some one had to take your body up in a plane and drop you off.

Anon (from death : people)

I used to think that the shoulder blades were actually "back breasts".

Kdees (from body parts : general)

I used to believe that my parents were aliens and that after I went to sleep they would shed their human costumes.

Justin (from make-believe : aliens)

I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.

Anon (from grown-ups : family)

my best friend told me that when she was young, her imaginary friend was a doctor that lived under the kitchen sink and ate tomatoes. She was a strange child then, and she's a strange teenager now.

lady Guine (from make-believe : imaginary friends)

When I was a kid I always thought the lunch lady had had brain surgery. I could only see the line of her hair net and assumed it was a scar.

Anon (from school : teachers)

I had a belief about the facts of life. When I was about 9 I asked my mum what the facts of life were, because a friend said he knew 7 facts of life and wouldn't tell me what they were!

Max (from people : lies)

my nan had 9 out of 10 fingers amputated and so she used to tell me that she picked her nose and the cockroachs ate them. :S i actually belived her...

Bea (from bad habits : picking my nose)

My older sisters had me believing that electricity was in the ground. I used to go around plugging radios and all sorts of stuff into the ground, and to my surprise, it never worked!

John Pratt (from science : technology)