We used to pass a building that said "Auto Body/Paint." I thought it referred to body paint, and that hippies would go through there like a car wash and get designs spray-painted on themselves. I have no idea how I found out about either hippies or body paint as a grade schooler.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- my parents were hippies and I use to beleive that Jerry Garcia was SAnta Clause. — Melissa