There was a USAF military base near our house and my mom and aunts used to always warn one another and us, "Watch out for the airmen." I had this vision of a huge child-eating alien wearing an astronaut's helmet walking around downtown, and wondered why the government didn't stop it.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- I used to wonder why the government didn't just make war illegal..— Samilton Duerheiser
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon
- i wanted to be either an astronaut or a goblin when i grew upAnon
- that DOT was a particularly popular brand of motor cycle helmet.— Gary Watrous
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit