Until I learned that minor and miner were homonyms, I thought that the reason miners could not buy tobacco was because it would be dangerous to light a match around dynamite.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- For whatever reason, I thought that grass was slang for tobacco rather than marijuana.Anon
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - when i was kid, i believed dynamite was something you sprayed on rocks and then they would dissapear— big googely
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon