When I was little, I used to think that there were only 4 minutes to the hour: Like, 3:00, 3:15, 3:30, and 3:45, and then it would be 4:00 and it would start over again. And I got kinda confused one time when I looked at the digital clock and it said 3:16 on it. I was thinking, "What's going on? Something's not right here..."
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
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- Once I told everyone that I saw a clock reach 1:60.— flojo