I used to believe, thanks to my older brother, that if you didn't close the milk carton after pouring it on your cereal that spiders would drop into the carton. I still can't leave a milk carton open and I'm now 46.
A childhood belief about milk

others believed things like this
- When i was little I used to think that if you opened a milk carton on the wrong end you would get arrested— Erin
- I used to believe that I could make a chick hatch from egg carton as long as I kept it warm :)— Stephanie
- I used to think that when you poured milk into your cereal, the cereal multiplied.— Allen
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon