I remember the first time I learned there was a place in hospital called 'casualty', I assumed it must be the 'casual' area - where all the doctors wear jeans + t-shirts + just lay around doing nothing all day.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- When i was little i thought casualty was a big hospital in londonAnon
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- The song "Reverend Blue Jeans" turned out to be "Forever in Blue Jeans." Who would have believed that?— music lover
- I thought "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was a somewhat casual manual for astronauts.— Katya
- I used to think there was a place called Caucasia and everyone from there was Caucasian.— Lucy
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty