I used to think that if you wanted to rent a Uhaul moving van, you had to use a van that had the name of the state you were moving to on the side (all of the vans feature a random U.S. state), and if they didn't have the state you wanted, you either had to pick another one or wait until somebody from that state moved to where you lived so that a van from the right state would be there. I even thought there a waiting list for popular states.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I thought Albania was the state of AlabamaAnon
- I used to believe that America was a state near the one I live in.Anon