I thought there was one enormous clock somewhere in London that controlled time all over the world. Once in a while, it would decide to jump forward an hour, and then everyone had to jump an hour into the future. Similarly, sometimes it would jump backwards and everyone in the world would have to live the last hour all over again.
I was glad it never managed to go further than an hour, as I thought that if it started going backwards, the years would go back 1992, 1991, 1990 and so on, and people would start getting younger until everyone on earth was a baby. And if it went forward, I might have to leave school not knowing enough.
I thought about things too much as a kid.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- I thought the big hand was for the hour and the smaller one was for the minutes until i was in third grade.— Time Challenged
- An hour and a half is exactly the same as half an hourAnon
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- You had to wait an hour after eating ANYTHING, even one M&M, before swimming. Anon