When I was little, my grandpa had me convinced that the rope for manually opening the garage door was actually used to collapse the entire house. I used to wonder how to pull it and still escape being crushed by the falling roof.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis
- I used to think that if you had a garage sale that meant you were selling the garage!— ~Curtis~
- When I was young my mother used to tell me that guacamole was actually crushed grasshoppers.Anon
- When I was about 6 years old I use to think that if a cookie crumbled all the flavor would escape.— Arilinia
- i used to believe that the white foam on the surface of the ocean were unicorns trying to escape.— intunedwithmagic