In order to get out of doing dishes I told my brother that I had secretly been keeping a record of who had done dishes and when, and that he was sorely behind. I got away with not doing dishes for two weeks before he decides he wanted to see the "secret record."
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- When I was young I used to believe that when it is raining God is crying or washing dishes.Anon
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- 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 believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April