Until I was in HIGH SCHOOL I thought that pimentos occured naturally inside of green olives. Embarrassed myself terribly finding out otherwise.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- I used to think that girls' anuses were green. I remember thinking that as late as high school.— Jack
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S