My father used to say that the water towers contained soup for people in the hospitals. Plus some of them were big onion shaped tanks- very intuitive of them to contain soup inside. And of course, I believed it at first being the gullible child I was.
A childhood belief about water towers

others believed things like this
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- I used to think Tomato soup was Lava.— Daniel Green
- I used to think soup actually made you grow up.— Marie91
- I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.Anon
- When I was young ,I used to believe that if you ate a lot of soup you would grow faster .
thx mom — ngl - when i was little i used to think that drinking soup would make me taller — gella pas doue