I used to believe that the size of a person's nostril was in direct ratio to the size of their fingers for ease of picking. I also thought that if you had small nostrils and big fingers, that the nostril actually stretched out to accomodate the finger, so the person would get bigger nostrils.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that moustaches were overgrown nostril hairs.Anon
- I used to believe that I was the only person in the entire world who knew about my favorite ratio station.— Gillian
- When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils — l.j.
- I used to gag when I ate english muffins because the holes in the bread looked like nostrils.Anon
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha