When I was younger I asked my dad what the red cord in our garage was (you pull it and then you have to open it by hand instead of with the opener). He didn't want me to ever pull it, so he convinced me that if I ever did pull it, the house would explode.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- If you pull off the leg of a spider it will rainAnon
- i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- when i was abotu 5 or 6 i thought that if i were to pull hard enough on my pants, i would float away— Aaron
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis