When I was younger I confused the word close, and the word clothes. I would constantly re-read the backs of fireworks wondering why they told me to light fireworks under my shirt.
"Use only under close supervision."
I read it as:
"Use only under clothes supervision."
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits— lala
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- i used to believe that my father always told us to close the doors to keep the giraffes out ... terrifying— lee