When I was a child I always thought that bar codes were made of fingernails and that the government collected everyone's fingernails to make them. I was always afraid that if my hand fell under a laser at the grocery store that the government would track me down and force me to tell them how I knew the barcodes were made of fingernails.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would get worms if I bit my fingernails. — Leslie
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly
- I used to wonder why the government didn't just make war illegal..— Samilton Duerheiser
- When I was little, I thought there were tiny cameras everywhere and they belonged to the government.— Brooke
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon