Up until middle school, whenever someone said "Wind Chill Factor" I thought it was wind shield factor, until one winter I wanted to go outside and play in the snow, and someone told me "but the wind chill factor is 3 degrees" and I said "Don't worry, we won't go near the wind shield".
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I used to believe that I could control the wind.Anon
- My brother thought the trees made the wind...logical.— peter