You know how the wrappers of tootsie pops have pictures on them? One of the pictures is of an Indian shooting a star with his bow and arrow, but it isn't printed on all of them, only about half. When I was little, an older kid in the neighborhood told us that if you found a wrapper with that picture, you could turn it in to a store and they would give you a free plane trip to Hawaii. I totally believed her! I sort of imagined that the cashiers at convenience stores had tickets to Hawaii in their cash registers, just waiting for some little kid to come in with a wrapper. There was a store that sold tootsie pops down the street from our house, and we went in to show the employees our candy wrappers, hoping to get a free vacation. They were rather amused.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
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- When I first heard Matt Monro's song "Born Free," I thought he was singing "Porn Free."Anon
- When i was a tiny lad, I used to think drug free zones were places where you can get drugs for free— Spencer
- I thought that the Chewit wrappers were different flavours as they were different colours like the sweets— Helen