One time when I was a kid, I thought that I was skipping/fast-forwarding commercials on TV by –in actuality- changing the channel. I thought I'd get back to the show faster.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I thought the song Skip To My Lou was about skipping to the toilet.Anon
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- in this TV show i saw a snake coming up from the drain so everytime i take a shower i go really fast!— scared person
- that if you had fun, time would literally pass by faster— paul
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon