Whne I was young, my father used to carpool to work. One day he came home and said person x was retiring and that he would need to join a new carpool. Thinking this was a car with a large swimming pool in the back; I asked him if he would have to buy a new swim-suit.
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez
- I used to think that a carpool was one of those bug, long limosine's with a pool all the way in the back.— Annie
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon