When I was little, about 5 or 6, there was a commercial on TV for facial cream that would take ten years off your age. I was terrified that my mom would by some and somehow I would accidentally use it then dissappear because I was still under ten years old.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I though facial hair on a man is what gave them the deep voice — Adrian Z.
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My dad would tell me that if the ice cream van was playing a tune it meant that he had no ice cream left. Duh!Anon
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea