My dad had a scar in his back; it was like a gun shot-wound. for years I thought that he'd got it saving the prime-minister from an assassin. Then a few years back my mum told me it was really from where he'd fallen back on a pair of scissors as a kid.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I thought a Prime Minister was some kind of religious leader, due to the "Minister" part— Darth Carrietta
- when was little i used to believe that if you won the grand national you would become prime ministerAnon
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- I used to believe that the TV could see me back. Noel Edmunds told me so.— Ringo
- My mom always told me she had eyes in the back of her head. — Ellana