As a kid growing up in the Jersey suburbs, I thought that because New York and Newark had similar sounding names, they must be in the opposite direction from each other.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought that York Peppermint Patties were illegal drugs.— Shirley B.
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- When I was little, I used to think that whatever direction I was facing was north.Anon