When I was around six or seven years old my mom would always make me attend Sunday School. I hated sitting there for what seemed hours, bored out of my mind. Every sunday, however, I asked my mom how long Sunday School was going to last, she would reply "A short hour" leaving me to believe that there were two versions of an hour, a long and a short one.
I also went to daycare and one day asked a teacher when lunch was, she told me it would be ready in an hour. I then asked, "A long or a short hour?" all the teachers looked at me weird and started laughing at me. My mom and I still have a good laugh at this story.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- 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 was never able to get a good answere as to what hour of the day "evening" actually began— Tad
- I used to believe that the sun shone brighter on a Sunday! Sunday in all languages is named after the Sun!!!— Vasu Moses
- My daughter once asked if God was short for Godfrey— keefdave