Here's a neat thread at Marginal Revolution: what weird or silly things did you believe as a child? I've got a couple:
My birthday falls exactly six months from my father's (November 7 and May 7, respectively.) I thought this was normal, and that all boys' birthdays synched up with their fathers' in this way.
Due to my tendency to literal-mindedness, I spent over a year thinking my father (an attorney) worked for the U.S. Mint. I had asked him why he had to leave me and mom to go to his job downtown every day, and he replied, "To make money." I thought this meant he actually physically constructed U.S. currency. I didn't have have any concept of printing presses, either; I envisioned him cutting out green pieces of paper with scissors and drawing the portraits on the bills freehand. (I don't think he made coins. Some underling probably did that for him.)
Well, those are mine. Anyone else got any good ones?
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When I was little, I used to go with my parents to the grocery store. After I started to "understand" how things worked there, I decided that when I grew up I wanted to be a cashier at the grocery store, because I thought that they got to keep all the money that people were handing them for their groceries, and that's why they had those drawers full of cash - it was their pay!
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