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I had only seen depth markers that marked feet before, so when I went to a pool that had depth markers that said 3 FT 4 IN, I thought that the "4 IN" part meant there were four people in the pool. It didn't occur to me that I could see more than four people, and there was no way the depth markers could have counted how many people were in the pool anyway.

depth markers

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.

Anon

One day when I was nine or ten, my older brother and I were walking on the beach and the beach was filled with condominiums, he pointed at the condominiums and told me that they are condoms and that condom was short for condominium. At the time, I didn't know what a condom actually was but I did know exactly where babies come from.

Anon

When I was younger, I used to believe road sign warning road ice it's warning chaire

Johnny

I used to believe that the cars of the future could fly.

Anon

I used to think shop workers served their customers by hokding up the item at the counter, and saying 'this will cost you ____'.

Anon

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

Anon

When I was a child I used to think that there were witches in the street were I live because that is in fact its name.

Teacher LM

I used to go to a pool where there was a sign that said "Shower before entering pool." Some letters fell off so it said "Shower bef", so I thought another name for the pool was the "shower bef". My dad played along with it and asked if I wanted to go to the baby pool or the shower bef.

Shower Bef lover