I used to be confused by signs in stores that said "sale" or "on sale". I thought to myself, "if this stuff is 'on sale', does it mean that you can't buy all this other stuff? And if you can't, why do they have the other stuff in here anyway?"
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- When I saw signs stating "Lots for sale" I thought it meant that there was a lot for sale.— Robin
- I used to belive that, when a store held a "liquidation sale", all the unsold stuff would be melted down.— Marty
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- I used to believe that if a item wasn't "on sale" then you weren't aloud to buy it.— Meagan
- i thought the for sale sign buy owner things meant that u could also buy the owner — brandi
- I used to think that a car boot sale was where motorists exchanged car boot lids.— Alan, Sheffield, UK