My parents told me that if I dug straight downwards, I would get to Australia - so that's what i tried to do.
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
- WHen I was a kid i used to believe you could dig to Australia— Chie
- i used to think that Australia was the whole world.— Trish
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- i used to think that bethleham was in australia, like just out in the desert somewhere— joanna
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona