I thought Tuck's Medicated pads were for putting matches out. In the commercial they used to show a match light on fire and then they would use the pad to put out the flame. I would always tell my mom why don't people save money and just blow the match out.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I thought it was against the law to carry around a lot of money unless you were putting it in the bank.Anon
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily