When there was a Western movie on telly I wondered why the town of Yonder was always nearby...As in 'Over yonder' or 'he was heading off yonder'. Took me years to work out that America was much bigger than I thought.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- i used to think nickel were work more than dime cause they were biggerAnon
- When i was about 6 years old, i thought God was washing his"LEGO" town, when it was raining here.— Meie
- I used to believe all of North America was Canada and South America was USA..— Daria
- i used to think that if you opened up the back of the telly you`d go into a whole new world Anon