When I was little, if we drove past a carnival I would always beg to go on the rides. My parents told me that it wasn't open...that they were just testing the lights. :(
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "carnival barker" was a person who barks like a dog at a carnival.Anon
- I used to believe that the song "Another one bites the dust" was "Another one rides the bus"— Emmy
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I used to believe that aliens would come and take me if I wasn't good to my parents— somebody