At some point, I became convinced that my aunt and uncle had the job of putting the filing in Pop-Tarts. I held this notion for an embarrassingly long time (well into elementary school), and to this day cannot figure out why I started to believe that.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- I used to think Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were a married couple. — l stu electtirc boogaloo
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to believe that if you had to fart and held it in too long that it would cause you to blow upAnon