When I was very little, my dad told me that shampoo was actually the 'poo' of llama-like animals called 'Shams', which lived on golf coarses..... I believed this until I was about 12, and still get that image in my head when I buy shampoo.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- I used to believe that if you used people shampoo on a dog, the dog would turn into a human.Anon
- i used to believe that if someone take his bath with a hair shampoo, their body will become hairy.— roslin
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy