I used to believe that my dad knew everybody that you needed to know - and although I'm now 25, I'm still not convinced that he doesn't. He knows who to speak to to get - including a special price on concert tickets, a cheap (but excellent) photographer for my wedding, and all manner of cheap reliable tradesmen.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly