When I was little older people were always talking about dumping each other. Now, I knew they were breaking up with each other but I thought they were literally "dumping" each other. They would take a bucket of water and dump it over the other person's head!
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- When I was young i always thought the chicken really came from the big bucket outside of K.F.C..lol!!— kristi
- when i was a kid i used to think farts were another person in my tummy talking and he had bad breath— JOEY
- I thought break dancing involved actually breaking stuff!— Sydle