I used to believe that just by touching the poison that kills insects, you would die in an hour. Once I was in my house I accidentally touched an insect sprayed with said poison. I was very worried I thought that I would die at any moment, I did not know how long an hour was!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon
- I used to believe the "hair" in artichokes was poison.— Dawn
- i used to think guns shot poison bulletsAnon