My brother and I used to believe (because our mom told us so) that Zoom cereal would make you run faster. We would run up and down the hallway and ask if we were any faster than before.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the faster you go in your car, the faster the car radio went.— Matt
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- ... i used to believe the more stripes my pair of sneakers had, the faster i would run ...— wilbur
- that if you had fun, time would literally pass by faster— paul
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon