Adults used to tell me when I made an ugly face at the same time the little bell in Rome ran, my face would stay that way forever. One of the teachers at ellementary school had weird lips and I wondered that might be because she was showing an ugly face when the bell in Rome rang.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.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 it was true that only ugly girls poop and I thought I was an ugly girl because I poopedAnon
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- I used to believe that Alexander Graham Bell was not just one person. I thought that they were three people!— J.D.