When I was in Kindergarten, I heard that a teacher at my school was getting fired. I thought. "Oh no! She is going to die if she gets fired!" I told my parents that and then my mom told me the truth.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I used to think that if you met your parents' boss, your parents would be fired!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!— Spoot
- I thought "deployed" meant "fired".Anon
- I used to believe that when you were fired, you were shot.— Murray
- I used to think that blow-jobs happened when you got fired from a job— MeGaN
- My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.— Sally's mommy