My friend asked me if I wanted to go to cotillion with her. I had never heard of cotillion. I thought it was a very large number. million, billion, trillion. . .cotillion.
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I believe my mom had to pay like a million dollars for me to go to school— kelsorocksursocks
- when i was a child,i used to believe that a "million" is a big bag full of coins— Kafka
- When I was young and someone asked me what I wanted to be once I grew up, I'd say "A DOG!"— Alysia
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey