When I was about 12 and my little cousin was 4, I told him that our grandma had died (meaning the grandma on his father's side). The only granda he new was his mother's mum, so he burst into tears, crying out: Grandma is dead!!!! I was well punished for scaring him! :S
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- When i was younger my grandma told me that the nuts that was on the bread were bug wings, i still ate it.— Matt
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- When I was four I saw a group of nuns and told my grandma...look there's a bunch of brides with raincoats on.Anon