When I was in elementary school, my family lived near a town called Carpentersville. One day I asked my mom what my uncle did for a living, and she said he was a carpenter. I spent years convinced that since he was a carpenter, my uncle (along with all the other carpenters in the world) lived in Carpentersville. As it turns out, he never even lived anywhere near that town, though even now I still catch myself thinking he used to live there!
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if it was raining in the town I lived in then it was raining everywhere in the world — Pablo
- When I was little I used to think that my uncle lived in a bus shelter.— tigga
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon