When I was about 6 I used to believe that, when the berlin wall came down, that there was a wall seperating west virginia from (east) virginia because they had been in a civil war.
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When I was a kid, I thought the words on maps existed in the real world--for example, in the United States, the words UNITED STATES were actually carved into the ground. (A giant "U" in California, an "N" in Nevada, and so forth...)
I was about 10, my nextdoor neighbours big brother (15) was making names up for a football team on the playstation.
He named one of them 'Hugh Jass' and I thought 'Hugh Jass' was a real football player.
It was only when I asked my dad a few days later "Which team does Hugh Jass play for dad?" That I realised he had meant it to sound like HUGE ASS!
I always laugh at that,
Thankyou so very much joe!!
When I was quite young I got really interested in studying my dad's Atlas. I thought that the British Isles were Australia & New Zeland because they were the shape of a kangaroo and a koala bear.
I used to believe that the 2nd serve in tennis was slower than the 1st because you were still knackered from putting all your energy into the 1st!
i used to believe that Margeret Thatcher was the queen (because of the amount of coverage on TV) and that Great Britain was the only land in the world surrounded by endless sea.. i put this down to the weather updates on TV, which one day confused the hell out of me when it zoomed out to europe...what planet was this??!
My older sister also used to believe that the world in 'olden times' was actually black and white as shown on the TV.
When I was seven, Watergate was all you heard about on TV. I believed that someone had kidnapped Nixon and was holding him (tied up and gagged) next to a "water gate" which I pictured as a dried up dam. I thought that the kidnappers were going to drown him by opening the water gate. When I heard about payoffs and bribes, this only confirmed my belief.
I believed for a long time that the world was the shape of Great Britain and that all the other places I'd heard about were somewhere in Great Britain. I blame the BBC weather map for this :o)
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I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .
I used to believe that if a town or city were 'twinned', they would be identical, ie if I went to the French town twinned with my home town it would have the same layout - streets, shops, etc!!!!
When I was about 9, I saw the Saturday Wild World of Sports. I thought that if I tried hard, and ran fast enough I could perform the floor routine of a gymnist. After gathering my family in the living room for the performance of a lifetime, I started to run, and attempted my first flip. After landing flat on my back and not being able to breath, I realized that there might be alittle something more to doing this stuff, and then wondered how they could have let me try this.
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I used to stay in a house with a six year old and used to take her out a lot. One day when I was trying to get money out of the ATM the screen came up as insufficient funds (I am a poor student with no money). She assured me that it was ok because she knew her mums number and we could use my card to get her mum's money.
My friend used to believe that if you put any amount of money in to a vending machine and then pressed any of the buttons, the machine would just choose something to fall. Then it would decide how much change you would get.
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Because we used to get TV programmes and Text books from the US, my friend thought that by driving north of the North Island of NZ you would end up in America.
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I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world.
One afternoon when I was four or five years old, I happened to be in the kitchen when my parents were talking about somebody going to Miami. I had never heard the word before, so I thought they were saying two separate words: My ami. I didn't know what an "ami" was, but since they were talking about somebody going to see theirs, it appeared that there was a trip involved. So I asked, "When are we going to go to see *my* ami?" Mom said, "Never mind." I took that as a signal that I had an "ami", but I wasn't supposed to be asking questions about it. It was some years later, after I learned how to read maps, that I realized that they were talking about a city in Florida.
My grandpa was a barber, and usually when we visited them, the first thing we did was stop at his shop. Usually he had a toy for me. On this day, he gave me a dollar, then told my dad to take me to the toy shop across the street. My dad, trying to instill the value of money into a 5 year old, told me I could only spend half of it! No PROBLEM!....I ripped the dollar in half, gave one to him, and said "Let's go shopping!"
While on our high school baseball team, we convinced our 10 year old bat boy that the extra catcher's cup/supporter was a "nose guard" that should be worn when he was working around the batter's box. We had some good laughs then forgot about it for a decade until we ran into the young man who was now a star baseball player on his Big 10 college team. Fortunately he had no hard feelings and had "educated" some of his bat boys.
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I lived in Suva and I thought 'suva-neers' (souvenirs) only came from Suva.
After amny years of hearing you can dig a whole to China. I thought that all countries were on top of each other.
China, New Zealand, Australia, America and so on and that the planes flew straight up. And of course I thought it was all flat......