When I was a teenager, my mom told me I couldn't sunbathe because a snake might bite me on the head and then where would you tie the tourniquet?
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- i used to believe that when i used the tolit a snake will come out and bite your butt. lolAnon
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- in kindergarden i beleived that to be a teenager your name had to end with teen— eric
- When I was a teenager, I used to believe that someone's name-day occured as half-birthday.— Marcas
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon