When I was little and went to the Barber Shop, I thought the metal column the barber chair sat on that went 'up' and 'down' was a single solid steel shaft that extended way down into the Barber Shop basement. I had no concept of a 'hydraulic' lift that could raise the chair way up from floor level using 'telescoping' segments.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- When i was really little, i thought that pharmacy was a shop where you could buy animals, like pigs and cows.Anon
- When there was an advert for a "3 peice suite" i thought it was a shop selling 3 P Sweet's!!!— Kate Parker
- when i was little i believed that if you got three speeding tickets that you went to the electric chairAnon
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon