I used to think that a one-way ticket meant you could never ever come back. Couldn't understand why anybody would ever buy one...
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- Until i was about 6, i used to believe that when the police gave you a ticket, it was a ticket to the movies!— mari
- I used to think that boysenberry was poisonberry and couldn't understand whay anyone would want to eat it.Anon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- The Beatles song "Ticket to Ride" always came out "She's got a tick in her eye."— Kurt