My teenage babysitter, who was the superintendent's daughter in my building, always had a big chain hanging out of her back pocket (a keychain). I never knew what it was though, and I was afraid that if I touched it, an alarm would sound and her father, the superintendent, would come and arrest me or something (I thought being a superintendent made you a sort of king or something...)
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda
- I used to believe that if you weed your pants, an alarm would go off and everyone would know you did it.— Mr Ice Creamie
- I used to believe that echos were actually the sound going completely around the world and coming back to you.— kyle