I used to think I was going to fall through the ice and drown when I was ice skating and heard the ice cracking. I found out 35 years later that the ice skating area was just about a 5" depression on a park lawn that was flooded for skating during the winter.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to think that clinical depression was called "cynical" depression.Anon
- I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.— Chris
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle