As a child into teenager years, I thought that those unsightly bulging veins on legs were called "very close veins" aka vericose.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought the blue veins in some cheeses were actually blood vessesls!— Helen
- my aunt used to have an imaginary friend who instead of having blood had 7-up in her veins.Anon
- I used to be afraid of moving my wrists incase i snapped my veins and bled to death.— Tender veins
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly