I still think my father had children because they're easily fooled. He'd tell us (and now tells his grandkids) that if you pick up a rock fast enough you can see it's roots.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I used to believe that rootbeer was made from the roots of a beer plant.Anon
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- I used to believe the the Elton John song, "Crocodile Rock" was about a Crocodile, named Rock.Anon
- i thought the sky was white and the clouds were blue. Nobody actually tells you otherwise,do they?— fatcat
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda