One day, I somehow got ahold of a price list from a medical lab. One item that I didn't recognize was "pap smear", so I made up my own definition. I decided that the doctor would use his hand to slap a pimple or blister on your body (making the "pap" sound), then smear the drainage on your skin.
I used to tease my little sister by slapping her, then "smearing" my hand along her skin, telling her that I was giving her "pap smears". One day, she got fed up with this, and ran to my mom, yelling, "Mom! Joey's giving me pap smears!". Needless to say, she was horrified.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think vending machines had a person inside, who would hand you the item that you'd selected.Anon
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- When was 5-6 I used to think that leather was made from hippo skin.— Richard Davies
- I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson