When I was little my parents told me that old ladis had no lips because they ate food off the floor and if I ate food off the floor I would lose my lips too...it worked but its silly that I believed that.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I believed that when I put lipstick on my lips, the lips grew.— Alba Águila Castelló
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon
- I used to believe that dragonflies could sew your lips together so that you couldn't eat. — Lori
- when i was about 7 years old i once thought that chickens had lips. thats it!Anon
- The old classic by the Go-Go's "Our Lips are Sealed" I used to think they said "honest I see you"— Euge