I used to think that Liverpool was so called because the town centre had a big swimming pool full of liver in it. My parents were so amused by this that they didn't correct me for years, wheeling me out at family get-togethers to tell everyone my theory.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- i used to think that they killed people and took out their liver to make liver!— Sarah
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon