when i was small i found a box of condoms in my parents room and because there was loads in it (must have been a 12pack or more, makes me sick to think of it!) i took one thinking they wouldnt notice and opened it to see what it was. i thought it was a balloon and my dad walked in and caught me trying to blow it up. then when i asked him what it was, he told me that men carried them incase they needed to go to the toilet and couldnt get to a bathroom! i think my initial balloon idea was better, he should have left it at that!
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- My sister told me once that if I sucked too much helium out of a balloon, my lungs would explode.Anon
- up until puberty I thought that my nipple would inflate like a balloon to form a breast— EiEi
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- 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
- When i was younger i thought that the left testicle carried boys and the right testicle carried girls.— Ed