Several years ago, my dad got a new motorized toothbrush, and it had lots of settings, the names of which showed up on a screen. One of the settings was "massage," but I misread it as "message." So I thought the motor and sound pattern was hiding a hidden message.
Also, when I finally discovered that it said "massage," I misinterpreted that. I didn't know that the massage was for your gums, so my dad was really mad at me when he saw me rubbing my back with his toothbrush!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I moved the mouse around on the mouse pad, I was giving the computer a massage.Anon
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- I used to believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- After your teeth fall out when you're a kid, your gums fall out. Then you get new gums and teeth.— Erin
- I used to think that testosterone was a brand of motor oil.— Grungi