I used to believe that when a couple eloped, they stepped inside a cantalope and the priest was in there to marry them. That's why thier parents would always say "You can't elope! (cantalope) We want to be there!" because they couldn't see inside the cantalope.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I use to think elevators were alligators & cantalope was antelopes.Anon
- When I was younger I thought that to elope was to run off and get pregnant before you got married.Anon
- I used to believe that when people eloped that meant they were making babies...Anon
- I used to believe that you couldn't marry people with different eye colors as you.Anon
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- The muppets were REALLY inside the T.V.!Anon