When I heard the song "Swannee River" as a child, I didn't know that it was about any particular river. I thought it was "swanny river", meaning a river with a lot of swans swimming on it. So I supposed the song to be about any river with lots of swans.
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As a tiny kid in the Midwest, I used to overhear the tv newscasters talking about the Mid-East. I was embarrassingly old when I finally realized that they weren't actually talking about Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
When I was seven tears old, my family flew from Alabama to Denver. When we we over the plains, I saw the lines dividing farmers fields. I Assumed they were borders separating states and could not understand why there were so many since there are only 50.
When I was about 7 my parents took me and my brother to Purto Ricoon vacation. The first day we went to the beach I saw eroupean men walking around in speedos. I thought that they had lost thier swim trunks and were looking for them. i procedded to try and help them find their trunks until my mom told me that speedos were another kind of swimsuit.
I used to believe that the black lines that divide states were actualy on the earth. We used to drive from Missouri to Maryland and I'd always watch for the lines, but because I never saw them (duh) I thought Missouri was just HUGE.
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When I was little I use to think that the united states were the only part of the world and no other countries exsisted
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up until i was 9 i believed washinton d.c. was in washinton state.
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i live in a lakeside house and when i was about 4-7, i thought across the lake was disney land and mexico. i picked out the hotels, rides, everything.
When I was very little and still learning the game of baseball (I am a huge Boston Red Sox fan and always have been), whenever I heard that a team had the "bases loaded", I thought the entire bench was cleared and about 25 players stood all the way around the basepaths. When I first heard "the bases are loaded with Red Sox", I burst out laughing because I was thinking about all these players just standing there!
When I was younger we went on a road trip to Chicago and on the way we passed a town called joilet (i think). I read the sign and thought it an advertisement for a girl's toilet so on my wish list that christmas I asked Santa for a joliet because I was convinced I was using the wrong toilet. I ended up getting a map of Joliet and cried. I was a really weird child....
There was a kid in 4th grade that believed the size of some foriegn country's map was its actual size! "Ms. Teacher" he said "how can people walk on such a tiny country?"
When I was 6-7 years old, I used to think that a penny costed a dollar, so I walked to a liquor store (by myself. it was next to my house), with some pennies to buy a starburst. I took a starburst packet and gave it to the cashier guy with my pennies, but he said it wasn't enough. I was really bummed out.
when i was about 5 or 6 my older sister who was probably about 18 years old at that time bought an expensive make up kit. I asked her how much it was, she said "fourty-five bucks". I thought she meant fourty-five boxes. My mom started to wonder why in the world i needed boxes for the ice cream truck
when i was really young my 2 brothers and i used to get really excited when we went to the bank. ATM's were new machines and we didn't exactly understand how they worked. We would pull up in the drivethru. My mom would put her card in, and so the three boys started cheering for this lottery machine... Mom always picked the right numbers. So we'd be screaming, COME ON BIG MONEY!!!! and wouldn't you know it, mom was real good at it!
i used to believe that i had been to europe. one time my parents took me to a large body of water and told me it was "the other side of the ocean." it must have been a large lake or something. anyway, they disavow any knowledge of telling me this to this day. i know it happened.
i used to believe that i had been to europe. one time my parents took me to a large body of water and told me it was "the other side of the ocean." it must have been a large lake or something. anyway, they disavow any knowledge of telling me this to this day. i know it happened.
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my friend used to believe that the maps of the world only showed halfof the world. her second grade teacher told her the truth.
When I was little I always used to belive what my dad told me. one day we were watching the simpson and he came out with the lie all Americans are yellow! it took me years to finally think hang on...
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When I was young, I thought ALL European countries were monarchies with kings, queens, princesses, dukes, etc. And even Yugoslavia was wealthier than Spain.
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i used to think there were no bathrooms in hawaii.. an no toleit paper.. it was just that strange of a place...