When I was little and my dad would start a fire, he told me he had to take the logs with him everywhere he went and blow on them until they had enough oxygen to explode into a fire. I believed him for the longest time.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray