When I was three or four years old, I had seen an aerial view of New York City. I asked my father, a left-brained engineer, what would happen if I would "bust" into the tv. He answered that, of course, I would die. I assumed that I would be killed as a result of falling from the sky onto the concrete of New York!
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "real" Santa Claus was at Macy's in New York City. All the rest were fakes. — Marcia
- I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- When I was young I thought that York Peppermint Patties were illegal drugs.— Shirley B.
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon