i truely believed that a teacher's tenure (3 consecutive years at the same institution) was "ten-years"...oops!...
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- When I was about three years old my dad said that he was ten years old and I believed him.Anon
- My mum used to tell me she used to be a cave man and i believed it for years. Anon
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy