AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA wait for it........ no....seriously...... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I believed that we were going to have hoverboards and shit, just like Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd convinced me of during back to the future. I was heartbroken when I turned 16 and didn't see them in stores.
my grandfather had us convinced there was an aligator in his basement. he'd go down there and we'd here him yelling "get back! get down! get away you aligator you!" then he'd come upstairs and tell us he'd been bitten on the ear.
I used to believe that we were on the earth the same way a buffalo is on a nickel. The earth was flat but with a round dome.