When I was little I told my great-grand mother that if she spent less time in the tub she wouldn't be so pruny. Later I find out that it was just wrinkles!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!
— Eomer83 - I used to believe that the wrinkles on my dad's forehead were his feelings.— Suzy
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- I used to think wrinkles came about because people just grew too much skin.Anon
- I used to think when someone had wrinkles on their forehead, it meant they had a headacheAnon