When I was young I thought that by drinking orange soda I could run much faster then I normally could. My father did nothing to disprove this theory, often times buying me soda and telling me to run to a point and back while he counted. According to him I ran 100 yards in 10 seconds
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I thought there was a legal drinking age for soda (I had always been told that soda was not for children).— Dial Zero
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- I thought that soda was also called "pop" because if you drink too much of it, you'd explodeAnon
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike