When I learned from Jon Lee in S Club 7 that tanning beds are meant to be unhealthy because they can burn your skin and give you cancer, or even kill you if you get stuck inside and burnt to death, I thought they were just another term for deckchairs, before I knew what they actually were. Would make more sense to call them machines instead of beds. I kept thinking 'why is it bad to lie on a deckchair with a towel, everyone does that in Summer!'
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that flowerbeds were beds for flowers.— Nina Green
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz