I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- Whenever my fingers wrinkled from staying in the pool too long, I thought I was aging faster.— The Mortal Elf
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic