I used to believe that if you yelled at the waves and called them threatening names, mocking their size etc, you could make them bigger. I'm sure people at surf beaches used to wonder why there was this little kid out their with her boogie-board screaming "is that all you can do? My little sister is bigger than that, you wimpy wave" at the ocean...
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a weegie board was some sort of surf board.— Missa
- I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger— Quatsch
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- That 1/4 was bigger than 1/2Anon
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji