The things you believed as a child.

[richerthanyou]

If you eat your crusts your hair will go curly. Why did people think that this was going to make me eat my crusts?

[JayzusB.Christ]

I thought the Prime Minister of Britain was called Mrs Statue, till my dad put me straight.

[richerthanyou]

I used to lay awake at nights as a child being afraid that I could be a victim of spontaneous human combustion at any moment after reading something in a book.

Turns out not everything you read in books is true after all.

[vzzbux]

I concocted a story to one of my little cousins than if a hamster died you put it in the attic where it cocooned itself and re emerged as a smaller (sometimes different) hamster. The missus backed it up and for years he kept this belief.





V

[JamesC]

My sister told me that Timotei shampoo was made from bird shit which is why it's white.
The convincer was that people say it's lucky if a bird shits on your head - my sister explained that this is because bird shit is really good for your hair.