When I was in 4th grade, almost every kid in my class was convinced that the peninsula of Florida would sink into the ocean by the year 2000.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- i used to think technology was "flying cars" and that we would have them by the year 2000.— josieg
- I used to believe that when the year 2000 came around we would all turn into robots - how silly of me— Andy
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- I use to believe that everyone in Florida didn't go to school because it was warm all year around.— Julia