There used to be a swimming pool dealership near our town. They had a few pre-formed pools sitting on their lot. When I was 4, I thought those were bathtubs for giants. When I started reading, and could read the sign, I was very disappointed to learn that they were just pools!
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "car pools" were cars with pools in them, like in the rock videos.— Smart Cookie
- I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.— Matt
- my Dad told me ice rinks were defrosted every evening and turned into swimming pools— neil
- I used to believe that sharks lived under the pools where the air vents were. — Carol
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon