When I was younger, i think until i was 8 or so, I had watched "I Love Lucy" at my grandma's house. They were jumping out of a helicopter with parachutes, and I somehow believed that the only way to get off of a helicopter was to jump out!!! I later learned that helicopters had to land eventually!
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish
- I used to believe that everytime i saw a helicopter the A-team were in it on their way to fight the baddies!— Natalie
- i used to believe that in the i love lucy days, everything really was in black and white— allison
- I used to believe that the heart at the beginning of the I Love Lucy Show was made of real chocolate.— Krissa
- I thought that the line was "Lucy in the Sky with Linus" (not lucy in the sky with diamonds)— Forrest
- I used to believe that the little 'helicopters' that fall from the trees were dead tadpoles.— Chester Finnigan SnapDragon McFisticuff