When I was young I got onto a bus with my sister and asked the driver for a one whole fare. The driver took some time explaining to me that I actually wanted two half fares, but for some reason I could not understand why two half fares did not make one whole fare.
A childhood belief about buses

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- I always used to think that Ozzy Osbourne was a racing driver!
Anon - I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy
- I used to believe that a "ghost-driver" was a car driving with a white sheet over it.— Nynke
- I used to think Jane Austen was related to the Bronte sisters, maybe like their cousin or step/half sister.Anon