the world

When I was a child, many people jumped to their demise from the "G" Street bridge. When us kids would make Mom crazy, she would threaten to 'jump off the "G" Street bridge.
I was about 20 before I realized that not every town on earth had a "G" street bridge.

When I was a kid, I didn't believe that people actually lived in New Zealand. I have absolutely no idea what made me believe this, but I thought this up until I was about 10 or 11 years old. I thought it was completely inhabited by kiwi birds and uh....other native New Zealander creatures.

Where I live (near Detroit) there are several nearby streets with names like 9 Mile and 8 Mile. When I was younger I thought the names referred to how long the streets were - 9 Mile was 9 miles long, etc. I thought all streets were named like this!

When I was 10 years old, I used to think the footie team Sheffield Wednesday was a bank holiday, Barry van Hire was a dutch soccer player and Muffin the Mule was a sexual offence.

I used to believe that ATM machines just gave you as much free money as you wanted. Also, I had heard my dad talk about a "job" where he earned money. Therefor, I put two-and-two together and assumed that a "job" was where you took money out of an ATM machine. It confused me that he had to be gone eight hours a day to do this; when mom visited the ATM, it only took a few seconds. I concluded that mom was better at this "job" thing than dad, and wondered why she didn't go in his place every day.

When i was just about able to read i came across a map of Scotland which included all the Lochs. "Loch" being the German word for "hole" I assumed that here must be a country there just full of holes. A bit like in Yellow Submarine I suppose.

When i was younger (a lot younger!) i used to wonder why, when watching tennis, the players didnt have a rest when they shouted "juice".I still cant watch tennis without giggling at myself now!

When I was young growing up in America I watched the news with my parents a lot. One day I hered the reporter saing the they are having problems "overseas" and thought that there must have been a new 51st state called "overseas". A week after that I got a US map and counted fifty, i was extremely upset that the map makers riped me off and told my parents... yea. Now i can name every contry in the world and most of there capitals :)

When I was very young, I thought that there was a new president each day. I'd repeatedly ask who it was, and thought that George Bush (the elder) must be really good at his job, since he was president seemingly every day.

When I was eight or so, I believed Scotch tape came from Scotland and the kilts that Scottish people wore all had the same design like the one on the Scotch tape package.

When I(from India) was in USA for an assignement(Software), I found that my Manager believed, everybody in India had Elephants just like people in US had Cars.She couldn't understand why we laughed for a looong time before we could explain her.

I used to look at a map of the world and think that it was only half of the world, and that when I flipped over the map, the other half of the world should be there. I would demand "but where is the other half of the world?" and become very distressed that grownups apparently weren't alarmed that half of the world was missing, which made me think that they were being brainwashed and I was the only one who knew that some greater power was trying to hoodwink us, or else the other half of the world didn't show up on the map because it wasn't discovered yet. I swore to become an explorer and find the other half of the world when I grew up. And yup -- I love traveling the world, though I know all the major landmasses are where they are supposed to be.

When I was younger, I believed that the evening news was all make believe. There really weren't places called Iran, Russia, China, England. I thought it was the US government trying to scare Americans so that we would let them do what they wanted to. Go figure, I'm a politician now!!!

My brother used to play rugby and would always score trys. He always looked dissapointed however when he walked off the field as he thougt when the coach tapped him on the back and said "Good try mate" that he hadnt scored and that he would have better luck next time.

When I was little, I loved to toss money into wishing wells. I believed that when people tossed their money, they all wished for money and thats why there was always so many coins in the well. One day, I decided I would go home and use one of my mother's pots. I placed the pot in the garage along with some water and threw a couple of coins in the water, wishing for more money. Each day, I woke up hoping that my wish would come true, however, the well never grew any money for me. After a while, I gave up. I was puzzled.

When I was a child, I saw in a cartoon how people put some coins in the earth, and after a certain period a tree who produced money grew on this place. I was amazed about the idea that you could become rich in this way. So I tried the same, but unfortunately without success...

When I was a child I used to believe that a coin was better value than a note. When I had got some note I always asked mother to exchange note to coin.
My mother was laughing at me then exchanged ten cent coin to ten euro note. zzz...

When I was four, my aunt took us to Biloxi Beach in Mississippi. While swimming in the Gulf I kept wondering what was on the other side and decided it must be Greece. I think I got this because I watched an old spy movie a few nights before our trip and one of the female spies was Greek.