My mom told me and my brother that if you eat during a movie, you won't be able to hear what the charactors are saying. We believed her and never asked for popcorn or candy at the movies for years. Then I noticed that other people seemed to be able to eat and listen at the same time.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My teacher told me one time~when I ate the unpopped popcorn, the unpopped popcorn would pop in my stomach.— Petra
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer