When my parents were recounting incidents from their trip to NYC, they said that they had run into some friends. I thought this meant an automobile collisin, and I wondered why they did not seem unhappy at the damage.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- I used to think Art Deco was Aunt Deco, and wondered who this famously artistic woman was meant to be.Anon
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- I thought if you trip and fall down you fall at the speed of light!— Dietrich Corby
- I thought that every TV show was filed live, and I always wondered why they never messed up.— Steve
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear