i believed that little men sat in the back of vending machines and pushed the sweets forward.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that there were tiny people in vending machines that gave you your food.— Meah
- I used to think vending machines had a person inside, who would hand you the item that you'd selected.Anon
- I used to believe that the exhaust fumes coming from a car were actually what pushed it forward like a rocket — rocket car
- I used to think that little bakers lived in the toaster who baked the bread and pushed it back up.— Karen K
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- When I was a kid, I used to think that tablets were sweets for grown-ups Anon