When my best friend was little, she used to wait for her mom to finish washing the linoleum kitchen floor so that she could stand on it and talk to Mr. Clean, who she believed would then appear in them, just like in the commercials.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- i once believed that S.W.A.T.
standed for sit,wait,and,talk.
lol!— Hawk - I thought Napoleon invented linoleum.— Steve Murphy
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - Thanks to the commercials,I believed that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was made by Jesus.— Too Literal