my grandma used to tell me if I didn't eat every single piece of rice in my bowl I would one day marry a really ugly man!
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I used to think it was true that only ugly girls poop and I thought I was an ugly girl because I poopedAnon
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.— Jayne