random beliefs
I used to believe that when the judge sentenced a criminal to an impossibly long sentence (like 100+ years) that they kept his body in prison after he died until it was there for the whole sentence.
I used to believe, the little round bandaids, were to cover bullett holes.
When I was 5 or so, my dad told me that if you caught a squirrel by the tail it would pop off and the squirrel would run away and hide until it grew a new tail.
My next door neighbours brother once told me that you couldnt eat the wafer cone from an Ice Cream and that they were paper/cardboard and only to hold up the ice cream...i never ate them for years!!
when I was about 5 or 6, I believed that there were rhinos behind the furniture in the guest room, when it was dark.
I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!
I used to believe that if you didn't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, you couldn't leave the bathroom.
I used to think that bartenders were scientists and when they were mixing drinks, they were really mixing chemicals and trying to poison people.
Because they had the same initials, I used to get Winston Churchill and Wilt Chamberlain (a tall, African-American basketball player) mixed up.
When I was small I thought that birds must be made from electricity! How else could they stand on the power cables?
It took me 5 years before figure out the physics behind it!
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