As a child I could never figure out how people knew what hour it was when people said its 15 past the hour or so on. I thought their was some trick to it.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- 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
- An hour and a half is exactly the same as half an hourAnon
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- You had to wait an hour after eating ANYTHING, even one M&M, before swimming. Anon
- I was never able to get a good answere as to what hour of the day "evening" actually began— Tad