I thought very long and hard about the Father Christmas issue as a child. I eventually came to the conclusion that he couldn't possibly be what everyone said. How could a fat man and some magic deer go all around the world, dispensing brand name toys out of the back of an apparently limitless pile on a sled? No, to my 8 year old brain, the answer was simple: This "Father Christmas" was an alien. I confronted my parents with my findings and they were told me the truth.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Father Christmas stole toys from Smyths.— Shovel Tem
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- Do you really mean to tell me that father Christmas is a myth?
Finally......— Peter (Aged 70) - We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- i used to believe that the world couldn't have possibly started before i was born.— emma