When I was about five(ish) there was a water tower in my town and for some reason, I thought it was a giant pineapple! Every time I passed it I got so hungry. Looking back at it today, it doesn't even look like a pineapple.
A childhood belief about water towers

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- i used to think the water tower was filled with milk— jen
- i used to believe that humpty dumpty lived in our towns water towerAnon
- I used to believe that water towers were giant metal spiders. Don't ask. — Goatgirl
- I used to think that water towers were giant golf tees.— adam
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones