Every year when I was young my family would go on vacation to a lake. When out on a row boat fishing with my brothers, I would think you could catch more fish if the lake was half empty. I would use a pail and scoop water from one side of boat and dump it on the other. Hence emptying one side of the lake.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the last line of Row Row Row Your Boat was 'Life is butter dream'.— Mindless Misfit
- I used to believe that if I chewed on one side of my mouth too much the other side would get jealous.Anon
- row row row your boat gently down the stream...merrily merrily merrily merrily life's a butter bean.— bleeslady
- when I was 6 years old i use to believe a catfish was half cat one fish.Anon
- I used to beleive that when I took a bath w/ my brothers, that if they peed in the water I'd get pregnant.— SabB
- i used to believe that everyone had a twin on the other side of the world.— tahnee