I used to think a day was 60 hours long, just like an hour is 60 minutes long and a minute is 60 seconds long. I thought we just slept through most of it.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".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
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long— Heather