When I was little, my mother told us that ear wax was duck poop. Every time she cleaned mine and my brothers' ears, she would quack. Whoever had the most "duck poop" got the loudest quack. We were always competeing and trying to make more duck poop in our ears.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.
— emily - i thought that "aromatic" duck was actually "asthmatic" duck.
poor thing...— rachael - I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka