when i was little my mother used to say that if i crossed my eyes too much that they would get stuck like that. i believed this till i was about 12.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive if i crossed my eyes they'd stay like that.. haha— L Bennett
- If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck like that.Anon
- if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!— Olivier
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- my dad said to me once that if I swallowed toothpast one day I would die! I believed it till I was 12!!!— Floobloom