If we were on vacation and staying in a hotel, I thought it was illegal to eat at the restaurant in another hotel. If we weren't staying in any hotel and just decided to eat out at a hotel restaurant nearby, it was still illegal, but not as bad. on vacation it's like betraying your hotel.
When reentering the lobby of our own hotel, I would hide the kids' menu I'd kept from the other place so the receptionist wouldn't see that I was breaking the law.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I saw this guy at a hotel and he wore a tag that said "trainee," so I thought that it was his name!Anon
- I once thought a vent in my hotel room led down to the center of the earth.— flarn2006
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- I always thought that "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees was sung by Aretha Franklin.Anon
- Whenever my fingers wrinkled from staying in the pool too long, I thought I was aging faster.— The Mortal Elf