When a TV station was having difficulty broadcasting and a voice came on and said to "Please stand by," I thought it was my fault the TV wasn't working and got up and stood by the TV until the TV was working again.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when the power goes out, the water also stops working.Anon
- When I was little, I thought that since boys stood up to pee, they could stand up to poop.— Lacey
- When I was younger I thought MTV was an x-rated station because I thought M stood for Mature.— Aeris
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine