My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- When I was young my mother used to tell me that guacamole was actually crushed grasshoppers.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie