My home town in New Zealand was right at the base of 8260ft Mt Egmont; we looked straight out our window at it, and in a straight line the summit was probably only about 15 miles away. I remember always thinking that the whole world was just over the other side of the mountain.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- i used to think the whole world was new zealand— Matt
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- if you eat toothpaste straight from the tube, you will get worms— wormelow
- that the money I gave at sunday school would go straight to God.— christine
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon