when I was a child I couldn't figure out for the life of me why in the world anyone would go to a flea market.Why would you want to buy fleas?Unless of course they were talented as those who worked in flea circuses!I believed this until the age of 12!!
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- When i was a child, i thought a flea market was where you bought fleas.— Vanessa
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I used to think the Flea Markets actually sold fleas...Anon
- That flea markets sold fleas.— Sarah
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley
- I used to believe that a 'Flea Circus' really was a circus with performing feas!— Jo Lancashire