When my mom was little her map of the U.S. had our state (Ohio) green and the other states were a variety of other colors. My mother then believed that the grass in other states was the color on the map. She wouldn't believe my grandma that they were in Michigan because the grass wasn't purple.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- I used to think that dandilions were marshmallows on grass— Vernon D'Souza