the past

I used to believe a war was people shooting each other from across a field. Whatever side had the most people living after was the winner of the war.

Rather violent.

When I was a small child, I thought that the world used to be in black and white and someone invented color before I was born. I asked my mother "When did you get color?" as we were looking through old pictures and it took a minute for her to understand what I was talking about. She has yet to let me forget about this.

In first grade we were reading about Amelia Earhart, and how Roosevelt was president at the time. However, I did not understand that "First Lady" meant you were the president's wife, I thought it meant Eleanor Roosevelt was the first woman who ever existed!

When I was little I used to beleive that black and white movies where like that because colors didn't exist back then.

When I was six, my parents took me to Germany to visit relatives. We had a three-hour layover at London Heathrow. I was very hopeful that I would see Robin Hood AND the Queen. My mother explained that Sherwood Forest was a long way from London, so a visit from Robin was out. The Queen wasn't as far away, but probably very busy. I was still a bit disappointed that there were no sightings!

i used to believe the olden days were black and white

When I was little, I saw a picture in an encyclopedia drinking milk from a wolf's breasts. Around the same time, I had heard my dad telling a Helen Keller joke. Wondering why somebody would do such odd things (you've heard them all), I came to the conclusion that Helen Keller must've been raised by wolves. I thought this was the case until I was about 17 years old.

I used to believe, whenever I heard the term "third world", that it meant the place we now live because the first and second world wars had destroyed the first and second worlds.

My mom is a subsitute teacher and she was telling a class about like back in the 50's because they were reading a story from that time period. One of the kids raised their hand and asked "Was everything black and white back then?" because all the shows from that period were black and white.

I used to believe that a swastika was just a mark to differentiate a military airplane from a regular airplane. I had no idea what a Nazi was, I had just seen the symbol in a couple of movies and figured that's what it was. I finally discovered the truth when I drew swastikas on an airplane at school and the teacher told me not to. My mom explained it was a symbol of hate, and I stopped immediately.

I used to belive that the city and all it's modern things were done by God. So, when I asked my mom what was all that of AGES about, she explained me that soscietey had evolved, and that actually God only made the earth, but not the cars or buldings, or TV, or toys.

I used to believe that the world was black and white because of the photos and felt sorry for people in the past

When I was little I watched a lot of TV with my grandma. So I asked her once, "Was the world black and white when you were a kid?"

I used to think people in black and white pictures lived in a black and white world.

I remembered as a kid lookin' at old photos of my dad and then seeing a video when he was about 7. Bearing in mind the films were in black and white i was fascinated. I used to think in the old days everything was in black and white, not just on film but actually in REAL LIFE..like the sky was grey.

I used to think guerillas were gorillas,so when i heard of a an attack by gorillas imagined lots of angry gorillas terrorizing people