Funny little anecdote time: In sixth grade, my English teacher would read a quote to us every day at the beginning of class and one day it was, 'A book is like a pair of open arms' but I always thought it was a pear, like the fruit, with open arms and I never understood it and it took me like a year to figure it out.

And then I saw this today, which made me lol and is kind of related: