When I was little my dad told me there was a lobster in garbage disposal that choppped all the food up. I believed that for years! It kept me from sticking my hand down there though.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- I thought the phrase "At one's disposal" meant you should dispose of the person or thing.— Geirskogul
- I used to believe that peanut butter was lobster poo.— PaulH(nz)
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel