We (me and my brother) didn't realise that the ocean was salt water...until our first trip to the beach, when we both raced in, then raced out again, spitting and crying.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that drag racing was when guys dressed in drag raced each other. LOL— Emmy
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon