I once thought, when I was three I think, that people would steal cars by just picking them up and running away! I had a little image in my head of a blond guy running up to our car, picking it up (as if it were only 5 lbs,) and running away! This made me wonder why millions of cars don't get stolen every day
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to think running for president involved actually running somewhere.— Artimage
- At about age 7 I thought one could see the people running around on a map, if one looked hard enough.— Adam Smith
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- I used to believe that the headrests in cars were made out of ET's head.— Kae