I use to believe that when 'varicose veins' were being talked about my Grandmother was saying 'very close veins' which made perfect sense to me!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my aunt used to have an imaginary friend who instead of having blood had 7-up in her veins.Anon
- I thought the blue veins in some cheeses were actually blood vessesls!— Helen
- I used to be afraid of moving my wrists incase i snapped my veins and bled to death.— Tender veins
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B - I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana