My mom told me one day, "No Nintendo for an hour." I was 5at the time and I couldn't read a clock or for that matter understand a clock's simple function. That hour was the longest hour of my life! I was always running back into the kitchen to look at the oven clock. It said 2:01 so I thought that the 1 meant my hour was up so I could play Nintendo now. I bugged my mom about then she had to explain to me, "the 2 is the hour and the 1 is the minute." Oh great now I have the minutes to think about too?!?! I thought my mother was tricking me and that the minutes would move up and down having no effect to the hour indicator.
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
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- 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