When I was in second grade my teacher didn't want us leaning back in our chairs and told us "keep all four feet on the ground". I had no idea she meant the chairs, I thought she meant our real feet and didn't know why she said "four" when we all had two.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- When I was a child, I used to believe that teachers never leave school and slept in the chairs.— Majo
- That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meatAnon
- I used to believe that if you didn't take your socks off at night your feet would turn into jellyAnon
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen