My dad used to go and shovel the driveway, and when he came back, he had lollypops. He insisted that they were "snow pops", and they fell in the wintertime. It took me a surprisingly long time to stop believing that. A part of me wishes I still did believe it.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- The lollypop man's job was to give children lollypops.
How disappointed I was when I met one. :DAnon - My mom had me believing that, like fruits and vegetables, the crusts of bread were the healthiest part.— StephTheGeek
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.Anon