Out local department store had a toy section where the top shelf contained life-size dolls. Whenever I wasked where babies came from, my mum would tell me that people bought them from the department store. Even though I recall not quite being comfortable with the answer, I did believe it for a long time.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I thought change was the store's way of saying thank you.— Madeline
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna