When I was little about 3 or 4 I used to beleive that Planes ate pencils. We had a long commute to get to day-care every day so i would draw in the car and when ever a plane flew over i would start screaming and would hide all of the pencils! (We lived within 1 mi. of an airport so this happened every 5 min.)
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore