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When I was little, my family lived 8 hours away from our grandparents and always drove when we visited. Sometimes we would pass wind power plants on the fields. I thought they were windmills. Like the ones in golf courses, but life size.

I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light

when i was a child i stole used to believe that if someone in a super market, the police would go to their house to arrest then.

When I was 5, I went weekly to a supermarket called Morrisons. There are two Morrisons near where I live, one near a train station and one further away. The one near the train station (where we went weekly) was smaller than the large one (which had a much larger range of stock as well as toys). I thought they were the only two Morrisons in the whole world.

For some reason, I thought that World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Panda Express were the same because of both of their logos are pandas.

When I was little, I imagined that the carnival workers in the booths slept there with a TV on top and a blanket, with the booth windows closed.

I thought the "We Card" logo in the window for businesses that sell tobacco (meaning they'll ask for your ID card) meant there was some kind of identification program called a "We Card", not yet recognizing that card can be a verb.

When I was little, I used to believe that streetlights turned on automatically when I walked under them, like they recognized me. I was convinced I had a superpower! One day, I ran underneath to "turn them on," but nothing happened... That’s when I realized it wasn’t me—just a timer.

When I first heard the word "suburb" I thought it meant the bad parts of town, since I knew "sub-" meant "under" or "less than" (i.e "sub-zero") so I thought it meant the part of the city that was less good than the rest.

Y'all know that ice cream man song that has the lady that says "HELLO" right? Well when I was 8, I literally thought the ice cream man recorded my mom's voice and used it in the song.
The hello actually sounds like my mom when she answers the phone. That hello is a running joke in my family still to this day.

I used to believe that shopworkers always had to question people about why they were buying something when they went to the checkout to pay for it.

When I was a child, I used to believe that there were little guys inside traffic lights changing lights colours with small buttons. One day, I was walking with my mother in the street and I judged that it took too much time and I slamed at the light saying "Can anyone change colours, please?". My mother was surprised and she said to me how a traffic light worked and that there were not a few guys who change colour. I was shocked ;-;.

I thought I lived before stoplights existed because we were stuck in traffic. We were going on a ramp towards a bridge.

It's simple: I thought Dollar Tree was a casino.
So, from a young age I was told gambling was a bad idea, and from the age I was, I thought that the name Dollar Tree referred to all the money you could earn. I later learned it was a dollar store.

I used to think that the man in the black coat and top hat on those neighborhood watch signs was a real person. I used to avoid looking out the living room window in fear that he’d be there outside spying on me.

When I was a child, I used to believe that mannequins moved around and changed their clothes at night while the store was closed.