When I was young (5-6) I was terrifed of going to the automobile repair shop. I had heard people refer to them as "THE BODY SHOP" and I was positive that no good could come of going to a place that stored dead bodies.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that a stripmall was a place where people could shop nakedAnon
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe it was illegal to shop at Goodwill unless you were poor.— Aretia
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- I used to think testers were short for testacles! So in the shop i used to say can i try a testacle!— Ro