My mother caught me eating biscuits in bed. "Look at the crumbs, you'll have mice". To a four year old this sounded like an exciting opportunity, so each night I would put crumbs under the bed in the hope, not that they would attract mice, but they would turn into mice! After about 3 months and a tell tale mound of crumbs the awful truth was finally broken to me.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used 2 believe crumbs turned into bugs.— Jen
- I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford
- I used to believe if you planted donut crumbs in the ground, you could grow a donut tree.Anon
- I used to believe that there where little mice the the street lights that turned them on and off.Anon
- I used to think all mice were white and those whom had other coloring were just painted— Feral