When I was little, and not so little, I used to think that when people were saying wind chill factor they were saying windshield factor. It made sense to me; afterall, I imagined the weathermen taking the temperature of the windshield as the wind was hitting it to determine the actual temperature outside.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- i used to believe trees made the windAnon
- I use to think that the wind was made by heliacopters. — Marisa
- I used to believe that the trees made the wind.— gullible
- I used to believe that trees made wind. Anon