I used to believe that when grownups talked about "joining the Common Market" as we were at that time, that this meant we all had to move house and go and live in this huge market somewhere, also that "Downham " a town close to us was actually Denmark and if I ever went there, suddenly everyone would be wearing clogs and pointed caps like in my childhood atlas
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I used to belive that the black market was a place— Lyndsey
- When i was a child, i thought a flea market was where you bought fleas.— Vanessa
- "The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" meant that there were loads of them...— Mike
- I used to believe that santa came to your house at a different time depending on where you live.
— santa 1:00 am - I used to think that all Dutch people wore clogs and lived in windmills— American