my dad told me once when the power was off, and i was looking in the fridge...that, "If you keep the door open too long, and the light is off, the food will get mad at you and jump out at you." so, until i was about 11, i always asked someone else to go into the fridge to get something for me.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- I thought if I left the door open too long, a dog would come from the cupboard in the washroom and eat me
Anon - i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon