I used to think that posh mansions and stately homes were just random houses in the middle of nowhere that nobody actually lived in!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon