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When I was a child, I thought that was impossible to visit another city... until a car appears from another one.
After my older sister pointed out Miami to me on a map, I was determined that I must have an "ami" too. It was a real "Who's on first" discussion.
I used to believe that on money, the treasurer of the United States really signed every bill prited her self.
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My boyfriend used to believe that gunpoint was a place, he couldn't understand why anyone went there, they all got mugged.
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When I was very young, I would hear about the "Iron Curtain" and I thought it was a gigantic metal drapery between countries and no one could go through it.
I live in Norway and when i was younger
i thougt that Africa were on the other side of Trondheims-sea ,
I didn't fully grasp the idea of a "secret ballot":
One election year Dad mentioned that no one knows who you vote for. I took that to mean, "including yourself". So I said, "Can't you just walk in there, bang your fist on the table and demand that your vote goes to [a particular candidate] ?"
Some time later I realized the true meaning of the "secret ballot".
I asked my aunt once where did money come from, and she told me that it came from a plant she had in her backyard. I was about 7 or 8 at the time, and i asked her where was it, so she prepared a plant with money covering it...Made us, my cousins and me, believe that until we were 10. I remember my friends asking to see the "money tree" we had at home (I grew up with my aunt and uncle).
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I used to think that lesbians were from another country or related to Germans somehow...I believe this until I was about 14 years old
When I was about 7 years old, in 1963, my grade school teacher asked 'Can anyone point out Germany on the map?' I confidently walked to the front and pointed to Cuba. I'll always remember the consternation this caused the teacher. Why was I so sure Cuba was Germany? It could only be that Second War films and TV coverage of the Cuban missile crisis had somehow become intermingled in my mind!
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My mum told me that if you caught the bubles on top of your cup of tea with a spoon and drank them you would get rich-it's very hard to do -I'm still trying!
I have lived in WAY northern Ca for most of my life, and whenever I would see a car with a sticker on it that had the letters OB and a small flying bird..I used to tell my friends that it meant they were an OB/GYN, and would usually comment on the type of car they had, like if it was a junky one, WOW! what a horrible car for a doctor to have! It wasnt until I moved to San Diego County, and drove through Ocean Beach that i saw that same symbol..and realized what an idiot I was! (BTW, I was 28, when I moved to SD)
Up until I was about 26, I beleived that being Jewish only implied that you were of the Jewish faith. And argued with my husband, and mother that Jewish could also mean you were *Jewish* such as being *Spanish* or *English*. I didn't beleive anyone until my father (who has told his share of doozys) convinced me otherwise!
When i was a kid my famliy was on a road trip. We were driving when my mom pointed and said "that is a winery." I actually thought this was a place where they put kids who wined a lot.
I was just old enough to ride my bicycle around our Seattle Neighborhood in the Northwestern US. My understanding of geography was such that Washington, was just south of Canada. With this in mind, I set out one day to bike to Canada. Some six to eight blocks north of our house I asked a lady doing yardwork, "Is this Canada?" "No. You have a ways to go yet." she replied.
So maybe it was a 120 miles, give or take, but then I couldn't have told you how far a mile was either.
When I was a kid, I "knew" that when you needed money, you just went to the bank, stayed in line, and they gave it to you!
When we were little my family would visit relatives in Mississippi every summer. The first time my youngest sister made the drive with us she very seriously leaned over the front seat half way through the drive and asked my Dad when we would be to "Mrs. Hippies" house!
I used to believe that my parents were mean to not have alot of money. I thought that I would be a much better parent because I would choose to be rich and give alot to my children,
In the place I grew up (Quad Cities) there was and still is a park called Vanda Veer Park. I would argue with people untill I cried the park was called Panda Bear Park. I knew there was no such thing as a Vanda Veer and thought they were trying to get me to say the wrong thing to be mean. Then I learned to read and saw the sign.