I used to like to take my shoes off in restaurants when I was a kid so my parents made up creatures called restaurant turtles that blended in with the carpet of the restaurant but would jump up and bite your toes if you weren't wearing shoes. I believed them for a pretty long time.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that ballet dancers had flat toes, so when they put on their shoes they would fit right.— Jazzy
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned
- I used to believe that shoo fly pie was made of old shoes and dead flys, and I wouldn't eat it.— Aubri
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- I used to believe that "BYO" was a name of a restaurant.— Ames
- Until about age 11 i thought that "Hush Puppies" the shoes were made from real puppies!— Laura