I used to believe that the way TV show's ratings were obtained, was that 2 guys with clipboards would go to everyone's house like the census but instead of knocking on your door they would just peer into your living room window and write down what they saw was on your tv.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I thought when a movie was unrated it meant it was so bad it exceeded all the ratings!— Oizys
- I used to believe the living room furniture would party after we all went to sleep.— Ellen
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- I used to believe hat the news readers could see into my living room so i sed to undress behind the couch.— henri
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle