When I was yound there was an ad for a tube of smarties. A guy would open the tube and he would be sucked inside to a world of smarties. I made my mum buy me a packet thinking that if I opened it I would be sucked inside. I was very dissapointed.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the red colourin gon Smarties was made from Beatles blood. In fact, I still do!!— pigsy
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- if you eat toothpaste straight from the tube, you will get worms— wormelow
- I used to want hemmoriods so I could use a "float tube" in the tub and have a cushy toilet seat like my dad.— Tami