I met Ronald McDonald when I was seven and asked him how old he was. He told me to count his stripes and that he gets a new stripe every year. He gave me an autographed photo and tried to count his stripes, but I couldn't see them all.
A childhood belief about clowns

others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!— JB
- I used to believe that zebras have detachable stripes.Anon
- ... i used to believe the more stripes my pair of sneakers had, the faster i would run ...— wilbur
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby