My Dad used to tell me that if I didn't eat my beans I would never grow. One day we were shopping and my Dad ran into an old friend of his and introduced his wife. The wife was very, very short. I piped up and said, "She didn't eat her beans, did she daddy?"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- I always thought that it was "Afully Wedded Wife" Not "lawfully wedded wife"— Sarah
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon