When I was little, I thought New York looked like a flashlight. I thought everyone else saw it too. But when I referred to New York as the flashlight state, everyone got confused.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the full moon was God's flashlight.Anon
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- When I was young I thought that York Peppermint Patties were illegal drugs.— Shirley B.
- I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang