I used to believe (thanks to my older brother Joe) that if you hit the red button in the meat department at the grocery store, the butcher would come out and chop your hand off.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p