My dad once told me that a button on his watch, when pushed, would "beam him up" to another time. I was afraid to hold his watch-hand for fear of touching it by accident.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- i used to watch doctor who and every time i saw a darlic i wet myself literally.— Dan Barber
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway)