My grandad told me that the only way you could possibly scare a shark was to swim backwards and make a noise like a cheese.I believed him. When I found out it wasn't true, I cried like a six year old child, which I was.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- THat Cheesecake was actually made of cheese. I was 18 when I found out it wasn't!— R
- I used to believe that the "shark mouth" nose art painted on military planes was to scare enemy pilots away.Anon
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - I used the scar on my dads leg was a shark bite when in fact he fell off his bike when he was a child— Wendy Murray
- My siblings told me that if I ate too much cheese, I'd turn into a cow. I believed them.— Sophie