When I was very young I used to love the smell of petrol (gasoline), and one day my sister told me one of her friend's brothers liked the smell so much that he drank some. This, in turn, caused him to die - it put me off petrol for a while. To this day I still don't know whether it's true or not.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw - Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to believe that hairspray was made of grapes! =) Does't it smell grapey to you? XD— Jaime
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan