I used to believe that if you were wet, say from being in the pool or running through the sprinkler, and you walked near something that smelled very badly, say dog poo or garbage, that the smell would stick to you.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela