When I was young, I thought that rubbing alcohol was the same thing as regular, drinking alcohol. So when I saw in the liquor store with my dad that a bottle of wine was so expensive I turned to him and said " Dad, why don't you just buy the kind at the drug store?"
A childhood belief about drinks

others believed things like this
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- I used to belive that it was Illeagal to drink ANY beverage while driving, not just alcohol.— Emma*
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I thought change was the store's way of saying thank you.— Madeline
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie