neighbourhood

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

When I was young I watched the movie ‘The Great Escape’ with my father and he explained to me what solitary confinement was.

Fast forward and we drove past Society of Saint Vincent de Paul thrift store,
it was an old building and the store was closed with roller shutters covering the doors and windows,

I misread the sign and thought it said ‘The Solitary Of Saint Vincent de Paul‘ and I thought it was an old solitary confinement prison that once held someone named Saint Vincent de Paul.

Anon

When I was little my grandmother always invited me an ice cream cone and it was the best thing we always went to the door of the house and the man passed by in his cart and when the music played it was because there was no ice cream anymore.

JENIFFER SEGOVIA