There are these metal devices used to measure what one's shoe size is. And when I was little I used to believe that these things were made to cut off your foot so whenever a sales clerk in a shoestore approached me with one I'd promptly run away crying hysterically.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!— angela
- I believed that garage sales were on a special day, like christmas or the fourth of July or something.— Cara
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.