i used to have a hard time when i was trying to learn how to read a real clock. my theory was that if an hour is longer than a minute, then the long hand was the hour and the short one for minutes. i was always late comming home... of really early.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I thought the big hand was for the hour and the smaller one was for the minutes until i was in third grade.— Time Challenged
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- An hour and a half is exactly the same as half an hourAnon