Up until I was about 15, I thought that the spoons that came with McDonald's Mcflurry's were straws. Needless to say, I was frustrated when, time after time, I couldn't get any ice cream to go up the straw.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - I used to think I was allergic to spoons (what a spoon!)— Sally
- Through second grade I always concluded the pledge with '...indivisible, with liberty and just a straw.'— George
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike
- Thanks to my grandmother, I used to believe that my belly button was where Jesus blew me up with a straw.— Michele