I used to believe that the R.I.P on graves meant that was the persons name 'rip', i always wondered why all the rip's seemed to be dying!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When i was younger i thought R.I.P on graves was a persons name, i always wondered why so many Rips died. — Jess
- i used to think that the "graveyard shift" meant that they actually had to go out and dig graves. Anon
- I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.
- I used to think stars were the persons in the sky— ceci91
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that when people died, they would stand up and walk to their own graves.— Mark (england)
- I used to believe that the white boxes that housed bee hives were cow graves.— Bub