I used to think that the word mailman came from the fact that the mailman was a male. I don't really know why.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- i used to believe a dog was the male version of a cat.Anon