When my grandmother told me that Christmas was "just around the corner," I ran out of the house and down to the corner expecting to see Santa and his reindeer. I didn't understand why everyone laughed at me when I told them my disappointment (wondering why grandma lied to me).
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid