I misunderstood when someone used the term "I'm getting my dog spayed." I thought they said "sprayed". I, for a long time, thought that the vet sprayed on something to keep your dog from getting pregnant!
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- if you got sprayed by a skunk you had to have a bath in tomarto sauce— rob
- when i was kid, i believed dynamite was something you sprayed on rocks and then they would dissapear— big googely
- I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- I thought the mole on my arm was from a bug pooping on my arm a long time agoAnon
- I thought Viagra was an allergy medicine for a really long time.Anon
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow