my dad told me when i was little that lifesavers grew on a certain tree. whenever we went by it he would pretend to pick some off and give them to us. A couple years later i realised that he was just taking them from his pocket. that was a sad day.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- I used to think the olden days came once every couple of yearsAnon
- I used to think that when people were taking their contacts out that they were taking their eyeball out :) — Jen
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris