I used to believe that if the lift cable snapped and I jumped in the air just before hitting the ground I would escape serious harm. My children asked why I had curly hair. I told them I was an African. They asked why I wasn't black. I told them my mother used to keep me indoors to protect me from the sun. They believed me.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I once asked my dad 'when you were little were you in black and white?'
So I guess I believed that lol XD— Moo - My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- Bread crusts make your hair go curly— bowlax