When I was 11 or so I saw a sign on a flower pot outside a shop that said no butts please. I interperted this as you weren't supposed to sit on it. I thought the wording was very funny
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to think the word "european" had something to do with pee, and that kids weren't supposed to say it.Anon
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- i used to believe that a perrenial was a particular flower's name— Ducki
- My kids believe if they pick their nose their butts will fall off!— wendy
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen