When i was in about third grade, there was a major fire across the street and up a bit from the school. this put the entire school onto a fire-safety trend, and we would have fire drills every two weeks or so. During the first one of these (which i thought was a real fire) we were told to line up against the back fence. I thought that if we were too close, the school would literally explode and kill us all.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.