When my brother and I were little, my parents were always talking about "watching the ball drop" on New Year's Eve, but we were never physically able to stay up late enough to see it. Until we could, we thought the ball fell from the sky into Time's Square.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- My parents used to tell me watching television turns your eyes square.— Ruth
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza