When I was about six, my grandfather told me he had the last pet pterodactyl on his block, and it got old and he remembered the day it died.
How silly of me to fall for that!
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- I thought if you trip and fall down you fall at the speed of light!— Dietrich Corby
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri