As Christmas approached, whenever I misbehaved, my Mom used to pick up the phone to call Santa and rat me out that I belonged on the "naughty list." I'd beg and plead for her not to make that call, and it always straightened me out for at least a few days.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha