When I was about 5 I was watching a game of Rugby Union with my grandfather. During the scrum I asked what they were doing and my grandfather replied that they were 'deciding who gets the ball'. I thought this meant that they were in the scrum saying "we should get the ball because..." and the other team were saying "no, we should get the ball because..." and that's how it was decided!
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon