My sister told me that there were little elves inside the bottom of the coffee maker that fueled a fire both to heat the coffee and light the little orange light on the coffee maker's panel.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i used to think the pulp mill was a cloud maker and later i thought it was a cheezie maker— boo
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I used to believe that coffee was tea with milk in it.Anon
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I thought you could get toffee from mixing tea and coffee.Anon
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel