I used to believe that people got smaller to fit into airplanes because they looked so small in the sky. I asked my mom how they got people to be small enough to fit into airplanes.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I used to believe that wearing a bra that was too small would make my boobs get smaller.— Aretia
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.— Edene
- I used to believe airplanes were flying submarines.— Gullible isn't in the dictionary
- I used to believe that the roars from airplanes was the earth yawning.— Natasha