When I was little I was told I had to wipe up well with my napkin after every meal or the buggies would eat me. I few years later I was stung by a bee while eating a hot dog. After that I wiped up after every bite.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that the Queen of England had a solid gold toilet and a special servant to wipe her backside.— Cat
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- I used to think that bees and wasps only stung people on the ears.Anon
- I believed if I let my dog lick my face and didn't wipe off the slobber, that I would turn into a dog myself.— robyn
- I usd to believe that at restaurants that had a BYO sign out the front, you had to "bring your own" meal.— Fiona
- When I was a child, I used to believe that adding sugar would lower the over-salty taste of a meal.— Francois