I used to believe that when you 'went on a diet' you registered it with the government, and if you broke your diet you would be arrested.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne
- I used to think that if you mixed a diet drink with a regular drink, it would explode. Anon
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin