The ink-filled plastic anti-theft tags on clothes in department stores would automatically explode if taken outside the store.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to think that the tags on cows ears were actually earings.— Kelly
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro
- I used to think that plastic surgery actually involved using plastic.
— JohnJ - I used to believe that plastic surgery was done with plastic knives.— Vicki J.