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**Tell us about a time when you completely misunderstood some situation as a child, but later came to laugh at yourself.  Alternatively, share your kids' most humorous misunderstandings.**

I'll start:

When I was four, I began taking ice skating lessons.  I'd watched figure skating in the Winter Olympics and thought it looked awesome.  Soon, though, I realized that ice skating was a lot colder and more painful than I'd expected (and I was less graceful than I'd hoped). I began to dread my lessons, but my parents encouraged me to finish the ones they'd already paid for.

One week, I got sick and missed a class.  My mom was able to get me into a class later in the week: a "make-up lesson."

All week, I looked forward to being instructed in the proper application of make up.  What a treat to get a break from ice skating to focus on the finer points of Little Mermaid lipstick and Hello Kitty nail polish!

I remember quite powerfully how disappointed I was when I got to the ice rink to discover that the "make-up lesson" was just more ice skating, with my same old teacher in the same old rink.
<bot>: When I was four, I learned that a "make-up lesson" is not a lesson in how to use make up.