Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- If I smelled a dandelion, I would wet the bed.Anon
- I used to think I smelled wrong, but I figured out it was because we never used dryer sheets. — blnkfrnk
- The tooth Fairy smoked cigars and smelled like whiskey.— Bill Reilly
- I used to believe that vanilla flavoring would taste as great as it smelled!!
Judy— judy - I used to think when you smelled a fart, that you were breathing in tiny pieces of poop.— brandypandy