When I was learning to ride my bike, I was absolutley convinced that I had to balance on it perfectly still BEFORE I started pedaling. Took me a while to get the hang of that!
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- I used the scar on my dads leg was a shark bite when in fact he fell off his bike when he was a child— Wendy Murray
- I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan