I used to believe that when you went into an elevator in a department store, that hundreds of short men (oompa-loompa-like) would rush out and change everything around in the brief few seconds before the elevator doors would open again. I thought the people browsing on the floor were plants -- actors that were there to make you feel like the whole scene was real.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- I thought change was the store's way of saying thank you.— Madeline
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- I thought plants only grew when people were not looking at them.Anon