On a day out at the beach when I was young and obviously hyperactive, I was told (and believed) that I would only get a suntan if I lay very still and was very very quiet - took me years to work that one out....
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty