Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- I used to want to be a garbage man when I was older because I belived they only worked one day a week— Oscar the Grouch
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- Lightning and thunder were produced at the garbage dump.— penny
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw