When I was young playing in the garden in the summer, I heard my mum say that the lettuces had gone to seed. For quite a few years I thought that lettuces ran away to sea when they got big.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- I used to think the lyrics of "Boys of Summer" said "poison summer"— Lindsay
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren