I had a friend (Tom) at primary school who was forever getting his words mixed up. He arrived home one afternoon and told his mother he had been exercising in the school's new gin museum (he meant gymnasium).
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- When I was at primary school I used to believe you could only marry someone who was the same height as you!— Lucy
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- I used to think school would last forever....— Jeff
- I was once told by a friend at school that if you sneeze you actually die for a split second.— Alex