I used to think that the older you got, the taller you got. My father once mentions a 100-year-old woman that he once met, and I had this mental image of woman who towered over my dad. She didn't look elderly in my mind, just really, really tall.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the man had to be taller the the woman to married her.Anon
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- When I was little i believed the man had to be older than the woman— its just me
- I used to think that the song "Evil Woman" was "Medieval Woman". Anon
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles