My son used to believe that the "no candy" line in the grocery store meant you couldn't be in that line if you wanted to purchase candy. One day I was buying Halloween Candy and he read the sign and he became horrified that I would break this law, and told me to get in another line.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I used to think that cotton candy was made from actual cotton so I never wanted to try itAnon
- When I Was Little,I Used To Believe Clouds Were Candy FlossAnon