One time I heard my mom talking on the phone with my aunt. She was talking about how we were going to lose an hour (daylight savings). I thought that we were literally going to have one hour less in the day and that there would be one less hour every day from then on.
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
- 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
- I was never able to get a good answere as to what hour of the day "evening" actually began— Tad