I don't know why, but I used to believe that matches got sulphur on one end because people sat at a table, dipping each match in it. I pictured it as a factory of some sort, and I felt sorry for the people having that as a job, because it must have been very boring.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon