When My brother was 4 or 5 I convinced him that alagators lived in our garbage cans, so he never threw anything away, he would just hide it in the refregerator!!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- I used to believe there were calves' heads in those cans of Pet Milk.— Ron
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- When I was little, I was convinced that musicians lived inside the radio...little versions of them, that is!— pcmkrfn
- I used to want to be a garbage man when I was older because I belived they only worked one day a week— Oscar the Grouch
- Lightning and thunder were produced at the garbage dump.— penny