When I was little I once saw the word "stripper" and asked my babysitter what it meant--she said that it was a woman who takes off all her clothes layer by layer, and for the longest time I imagined that strippers wore bulky winter clothing with lots of layers for their routines.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that being a tiger would be a job like plumber or layer. It was my dream job.— Dom
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- I used to believe that a strip club meant that you took your own clothing off — Adam
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I thought strip malls were just that, stripper clubs.— Neo
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha