When I was about five years I liked to make funny faces to parents (actually to everybody) until my parents told me that if the church would start its chiming and I was making a funny face my face would stay like that forever.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I used to think I was a vampire, and that my parents were trying to kill me by making me go to school. — Max