Living in Chicago means riding on the "L" train. One of the stops was for a street called California and I thought it really WAS California. The only thing I didn't understand was wht we skipped all those states in between.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea
- i used to believe the sunset was better in California cause it was closer to the sun— hazel
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor