My mum and dad use to threaten they would send us to Germany to live with our brother "Helmut" if we were naughty. I always pictured this kid living in a cave in the snow with an army helmet on with a moustache. Mum still threatens us with it, and I'm 19!
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- when i was small my brother always told me that if you picked your nose your head would cave in— Eric
- I used to believe that the salvation army was an actual army.Anon
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils — l.j.
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.— Teacher LM
- that DOT was a particularly popular brand of motor cycle helmet.— Gary Watrous