Whenever there were technical difficulties and the "Please Stand By" message came on the television, I believed that I fixed the TV by standing next to it until the picture came back.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I used to believe that since guys peed while standing up, then they must poo while standing up too.— Stupid girl
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash