When I was a kid, I used to think that every business built their foundation on a block of ice, but left one building on normal dirt. This was usually called the "off-ice".
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I used to think the song "Who Built the ark? Noah. Noah." was "Who built the Ark? No one, no one!"— Embarrassed Kent Girl
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.Anon
- I used to think no one built the ark because I confused it with Noah.Anon