My great-grandmother was Hungarian. She passed on some of her sayings to my mother. So, whenever I was bad, Mom would say, "I'm going to sell you to the gypsies!"
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios
- I used to believe that every one that
passed away would come and visit me.
No matter if I knew them or not!— Ashley S. (Knoxville , TN) - i thought it was a law that bus drivers had to wave to each other when they passed— ande
- I used to think that after you passed an off-ramp while driving on the freeeway, it disappeared.— Anonymous
- I used to believe that if passed beneath a rainbow I would turn into a woman.— Felipe