When my grade 2 teacher, Mrs. McDonald retired, I was convinced that it meant she was old and would die soon. I spent the rest of the summer looking for her name in the obituaries everyday.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I used to think that retarded was the same word as retired.Anon
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really
- I used to think the lyrics of "Boys of Summer" said "poison summer"— Lindsay