I used to think the smoke detector went off when there weren't enough "smoke-peckers" around. They were little mosquito-like bugs who lived in every house and pecked away all the smoke before the "beeper" could go off. I was friends with the one at my house. He had a baby sister and he didn't like getting wet in the bath.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon
- I thought in order to smoke a cigarret, you had to eat it!— Zoe
- When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around— Nick aged 8