When I was 16 and worked at a grocery store I was asked where the condiments were. I thought that was a fancy name for condoms. I was so embarrassed that I just turned red and could hardly speak.
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- I used to think that there were small people on TV who worked when I turned on the TV— JAVIER
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I got the 1990s and 1900s mixed up, so I thought people wore that fancy old-fashioned garb in the 1990's.Anon
- I thought if someone worked full time it meant they worked 24/7 and never did anything else!— andalite
- i used to think that oral sex was just a fancy term for kissingAnon