Growing up in West Virginia, I thought that the cigarette machines said "not for sale to minors" because it would give coal miners black lung.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- When I saw signs stating "Lots for sale" I thought it meant that there was a lot for sale.— Robin
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- i used to believe that coal from stockings was santa's poop because i was bad— dylan mcdonald
- In old west lore, Billy the Kid was called 'buck toothed'. I thought this was because he sucked his thumb. — Monty
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs