When I was little I wanted to learn to ride a bike without the training wheels. My dad told me that if he took them off my bike he could never put them back on beacause it was against the law. I cried and cried untill finnally my grandpa told me he was lieing.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to believe that training wheels were the different colored beads on the spokes.— Samantha
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- 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
- The more you cried, the less you peed.Anon