An advert used to come up that said, "To Let". For the LONGEST time I thought that it mean 'Toilet' and they always left out the 'i'. I'd think why they didn't notice their mistake and fix it and sometimes I even thought about calling them or something and letting them know myself!
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- When there was an advert for a "3 peice suite" i thought it was a shop selling 3 P Sweet's!!!— Kate Parker
- For the longest time I thought 90210 was a sitcom Anon
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- I thought that Samson and Solomon from the Bible were the same person for the longest time...— Laura G.
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon