When I did children's theatre we kids would always play with the scrims (the curtains on the side of the stage) Until one day a director told us that they now made special curtains that would stain your hands green forever. At 19 I still get nervous about touching those curtains.
A childhood belief about hobbies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the actors in movies were all acting live behind those big curtains in the cinema.— Courtney
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie
- That the tooth fairy drove around in her green Volks Wagon Collecting teeth from all the children.— Wanda Trytten
- I used to believe that my birth mark was a tea stain!Anon
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)