When I was five, the television advertisement for one brand of sanitary napkin would feature models wearing polka dotted dresses. I truly believed that "Carefree" was actually clothes that are sold in the local grocery stores and asked my mom to buy me carefree clothes for my birthday.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that drug stores sold illegal drugs and I couldn't work out how they got away with it.— Bigg Jase
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay