The world was really much smaller than I was being led to believe. In fact my suspicion was that my dad would drive us to my Grandad's house by the most circuitous route possible to give me the impression that it was much further away than it really was. I believed that Britain was probably only about 20 square miles. Worst of all I believed that my dad had told everyone else what he was up to. All just to make me suffer on long boring car journeys - it was so cruel. I was an only child.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- Huey Lewis's "Hip to be square" - in 3rd grade I could have SWORN it was "hit the beef square". ????Anon
- My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.— Julie Bulie
- If you look at a screen too long, your eyes will turn square.Anon
- I never had a make believe friend but my sister used to tell me I DID but he left cause I was really BORING.— Jamie