My friend didn't know what a condom was, (he thought it was some sort of candy), so one day he told his mom, "When you go to the grocery store, could you get me some mint-flavored condoms?" You should have seen the look on his mom's face...
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe viagra was a mint and that it was an everyday mint you could buy from the post office!!!— Bartoner
- I remember thinking that the "Nude Furniture" store was some sort of naughty place. — Texas Rocky
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I used to believe that you got 'Mintolia Disease' if you ate too much mint flavoured Ice Cream. — Leighton