I used to think that the way to count time was to sound it out slowly. e.g. Once my Mum said to wait five minutes so i said f-i-v-e m-i-n-u-t-e-s out loud and really slowly and thought that meant five minutes was up.
Because of this I could never understand how one hour was longer than say twenty minutes because when you say it out loud twent minutes would be longer.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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 used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- I used to believe that I would be paralysed if I sat on the floor for more than 20 minutes— bittergrass
- If you eat 30 minutes before swimming, you will sink.Anon