As a pre-teen, when I read the back of the Aqua Net and it said, "caution: contents under pressure", I thought "contents" was a verb. I wondered for years how the can would content if it was put under pressure!
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I cut my Barbie doll's hair and wondered why it never grew back.Anon
- in kindergarden i beleived that to be a teenager your name had to end with teen— eric
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon
- I thought that every TV show was filed live, and I always wondered why they never messed up.— Steve
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear
- When i was younger i thought R.I.P on graves was a persons name, i always wondered why so many Rips died. — Jess