I used to think that if a liquid was colour i.e. yellow bubble bath that you could paint things with it. I made a crossbow when I was about 6 and ran up to the bathroom to paint it with said yellow bubble bath.....it didn't paint it yellow!! =o(
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I used to believe that the bubble gum medicine was really made of bubble gum. i believed this until i was 16.— Shawn
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I used to believe that if I swallowed bubble gum, a bubble gum tree would grow inside of me. — Ryan