When I was 9 we moved from Utah to California. I truly thought we were moving to a foreign country. Our first weekend there we went to San Francisco and saw all the "flower children" on the street corners and I knew for sure it was another country.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I thought there was a different moon in every country.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought there was a country where they spoke Pig Latin. — keyboardplayer
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- Since I was born on the 4th of July, I really thought the entire country celebrated my birthday.— -Stoddard