When I smelled something bad, my Mom used to say it was my upper lip. I actually believed that. I know she was cracking up inside watching me lift my upper lip to my nose to smell it all those years.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I pushed down on my upper eyelids too much, my eyes would pop out.— I Still Don't Touch My Eyelids
- I used to think that the upper struture on the caboose was the rest room.Anon
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose. — sm
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana