The mall I go to has a slope going around it so that there are parking lots on both floors. Until someone showed me the slope, I thought that if you go out the door to the parking lot on a floor where you didn't park, you'd end up in some alternate dimension.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- when i was little, i used to think that cars had faces and talked to eachother in the parking lot.— Whitney
- I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.
- When I was little, I used to believe I could fly from my bed but I didn"t ....I fell on the floor!Anon
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle