A friend of mine believed that your handwriting was based on the pen you used, so she would try to steal her mother's pen because her handwriting was really neat.
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- A friend of mine seemed to think that 100 pence was worth £6.— Richard Davies
- I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I remember once a friend of mine told me that when ever you hold in your pee it would make your balls stronger— Zao