I was told that the reason why some cows could walk on hillsides was because the legs on one side of their body were shorter than the other...the person told me notice how they always walk in one direction. Since I only really ever saw cows from a passing car, it made sense to my child logic!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- My daughter thought milk was cow pee because it came from between the cows hind legs— Suzanne
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to think the song "Walk this way" by Arosmith went horse and sleigh insted of singing walk this way.— Derek