When I was a kid, I got a fake fur coat one Christmas. My dad told me it was my mink coat. So, for a couple of years, I believed that mink was synonymous with polyester. I told my friends this, and they chased me around screaming that I had killed a polyester for my coat.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a wee one I believed dogs were either black or white underneath thier coat....It was the 60's.— maddog
- I used to believe that a stranger was a man with an X on his coat— Gabe
- I thought that when I grew up I HAD to start wearing polyester like my mom.— levi lady
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- My Mum told me she invented skipping and I believed her and told all my friends - still living that one downAnon
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K