We went on a family vacation once to Colorado and I can remember telling my Mom as we were going up a mountain that my ears were getting dirty because I couldn't hear.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if I put my finges in my ears when i sang noone could hear me— Helen
- When I was younger, I used to believe if i covered my ears before I farted no one else would hear it.— Lime
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to think that dreams were events that really happened, I just couldn't remember them when I was awake.— Warren