My neighbor and I were thoroughly convinced that all old ladies were waiting to steal us. What an ailing elderly women would want with a couple of five year old kids I have no idea. But that didn't stop us from hiding from every one of them that crossed our path
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I was convinced my cat was going to steal my money at night. Anon
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty - that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- When I first met my husband, he thought women didn't fart. He was really surprised after he met me!!!Anon