when i was a child, i used to believe that when a judge would say to a criminal"you should be sentenced to 317 years in prision." i thought that when the person would had died they would burn the body to keep the smell away for the next hundred something years and put it in a safe not realeasing it untill the 317 years were up in to the sea.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy
- My brother that is 6 years younger than me used to believe that in seven years he would be older than me.Anon