When I was little my aunt and uncle(mom's bro.)got divorced. I asked my uncle if it was his "x"-wife because she "didn't work out". I thought it was like something on a list--you're done with it so you cross it out.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I used to think Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were a married couple. — l stu electtirc boogaloo
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- I used to think that your cousins are your cousins only until they're 21, then they become your aunt,or uncle!— AMILA
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- this guy i used to go to school with thought that Ned Kelly was his uncleAnon