I used to believe that when the t.v would say please stand by because of technical difficulties that if I stood next to the television set then I would help fix it.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that since boys stood up to pee, they could stand up to poop.— Lacey
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- i used to believe A.D. stood for "after dinosaurs".— Jennifer
- i used to think that shtml stood for
"sh*tmail".— anonymous