As a small child, I thought my town's water tower was a giant Dairy Queen with an elevator leading up to it. Unfortunately, there actually was a Dairy Queen right around the corner, so it took my parents years to figure out why I really started whining for ice cream when we drove past it.
A childhood belief about water towers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my mum was the queen. She does look a bit like the queen... minus the orb and sceptre.— Vix
- Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.— Amplexor
- I used to believe that people who were lactose intolerant could not consume ANY dairy products AT ALL. — Marideth
- I knew that dairy farms have silos so I figured that they're where the milk is stored.
— marianne - When the Queen Mother died when I was quite upset because I thought royalty did not die.— Carrie
- I used to believe that if the queen died we would all die too. I think it had somthing to do with bees.— Darrell