When I was about five or so, I used to think a bus driver was the best job in the world. I thought that they got to keep their bus, and could take it wherever they pleased, whenever they pleased. I was set on becoming a bus driver when I grew up, until I learned the horrible truth.
A childhood belief about buses

others believed things like this
- I always used to think that Ozzy Osbourne was a racing driver!
Anon - I used to believe that a "ghost-driver" was a car driving with a white sheet over it.— Nynke
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- I used to believe I would be able to fly when I grew up. Sometimes I think that still might be truth.— Melissa M
- I used to believe that peoples ears grew so that when the world blew up we would be able to fly away.— Ears