One day when I got home from school my mom questioned me about something that had happened at school. I asked her how she knew about that. (I guess the teacher had called and told her.) She said a little birdie had told her. After that I cursed those birds that sat on the window sills at school and always folded my hands nicely and looked straight ahead whenever I saw one looking at me!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen