When I was six, in order to keep me from climbing the railing on the 3rd story appartment balcony, my mother showed me a package of hamburger meat and told me I'd look like this if I fell off.
I would contemplate the precipice and try to imagine myself as a little pile of hamburger.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe
- Used to wonder why a hamburger is called that if it doesn't have any ham...— Axecutioner
- I used to believe that a hamburger was called a "handburger" because you ate it using your hands. — ELEKTRA
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- I used to believe that it was the law to hold the railing when you're walking down/up stairs— Brit