When I was around 8 years old, My Mom wanted to take me into the “Sears-Roebuck” store. I didn’t want to go because I thought she was saying the “Sears-Robot” store. I was afraid there would be robots in the store that would chase me around.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I thought change was the store's way of saying thank you.— Madeline
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- my mom told me that if i went inside the dresses at the clothing store, the dress would eat me...Anon