A huge baseball and Beach Boys fan as a young kid (and still am), I used to believe "Catch A Wave" meant going to the beach, running to the water's edge with your baseball mitt and trying to catch the water rushing towards you.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- When I was little I used to belive that girrafes were made to play baseball because they had long necks— Matt
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- My mom used to believe that the San Francisco Giants baseball team were actual giants.Anon
- I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.Anon