Until I was about 9 or 10, I truly believed Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon. Nobody told me it was. I just assumed the tourist attraction was a really big coincidence somehow involving the process of "erosion." (My dad was a geologist.) At some point in elementary school my teacher set me straight, but only after a lengthy and highly emotional discussion between us, during which I INSISTED in front of all the other kids that those presidential faces had randomly appeared over thousands of years of wind and rain pounding against the mountainside. I slinked home in humiliation afterwards. And I've never liked science since.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think Mount Rushmore was a natural formation. Thats how much I believed in God.— Judy
- I used to believe that Mt. Rushmore was a natural phenomenon.— LauraBee
- I had a friend who thougt the Mount Rushmore national monument was a natural rock formation.Anon
- My father convinced my little brother it was "Mount Reindeer" not Mount Rainier.— K
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to believe that circuncision was a natural process and that the foreskin fell off during puberty.— Yure