As a preteen, I believed that a strip club was where patrons actually stripped naked and pole danced themselves, rather than merely watching professional strippers do so.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a strip club meant that you took your own clothing off — Adam
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- I used to think you had to be in a special club to get a Club Sandwich.— Louis
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- I used to believe jaywalking meant walking around naked in public (from naked as a JAY bird...)— Izzi