When my dad was a little kid, every time he wanted to ride one of those pony things outside of the grocery store, his parents would tell him about all the kids that got electricuted on them.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- I only found out last year that a pony is not a baby horse.— Mescaline Frumblethond
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- i used to believe that parents do things to make there children happier. well i was wrong. — Emma C.
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa