Until i was corrected at a summer camp in the 7th grade, I thought that electricity was limited to certain cities (those I saw on TV) and the Dallas suburb that I grew up in. I then met some children from another suburb about 10 minutes away who informed me that they did indeed make regular use of both the telephone and the automobile
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- 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
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- When I children, I used to believe that the frog grew then was forming until that tunerd in a lizard — Luis