I used to believe that the shopping network couldn't possibly be the same thing 24/7. So I would stay up till "late" at night to see if it would ever change into something else.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think that on day light savings time you had to stay up till 2:00am to change the clocks! — Sandy
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel
- i used to believe that the world couldn't have possibly started before i was born.— emma
- I used to believe that "euthenasia" was "youth in Asia", and I couldn't figure why that was A Bad Thing.— Kellye
- I used to believe when I was 5 that I was special because I couldn't get to sleep until 11pm at night — Carrie
- I used to believe that Off Air was an actual show, possibly about airplanes.— Gretchen