the world

To understand this, one needs to know two facts:
1. My mother lived in Greece for a while in her 20's.
2. My grandmother lives in a house by the riverside.
Going to my grandmother's house was always an adventure, especially going out back to swim; and I was convinced that, if one swam far enough, one would get to Greece, just on the other side of the river.

When I was a small child, my mother would tell me about her parents and my dad's parents coming to the United States "on the boat." I used to believe that ALL immigrants came to the U.S. on ONE boat. There were not many ships, making many trips. Just one boat. "THE" boat.

i thought that my mom could write a check for anything she wanted cause it was the same as cash she wanted a red car and i couldnt figure out why she just didnt write a check for it

When I was 10, Ronald Reagan was elected president. My dad said that George Bush would take us into a war, so I was terrified that if anything happened to Reagan we would be in WW3 and the whole earth would be blown up with nuclear bombs.

I thought Abraham Lincoln was the first Jew.

When I was about 10 (not sure how old exactly), I heard that I was moving to Pennsylvania. With a feeling of shock and horror, I replied with, "Isn't that where Dracula lives?" Of course my folks got a big kick out of this and said yes, refusing to replace PENNsylvaina with TRANsylvania.

i used to believe that when we recieve change after buy something was for the next time we have changes to pay for our shopping. people used to be so nice...

I'm from New Zealand, so when I first saw "In God We Trust" on a U.S. penny I misread it as "Ingodwe Trust". I thought it must have been a Nigerian charity of some sort........

when i was little i thought that all sports balls had evil spirits inside them. if i turned a corner and say a ping pong ball was in the center or the floor, my superstitious mind would convince me that something terrible was about to happen.

we lived in a small town. whenever we would go shopping or go see a movie we would drive to a bigger town, lexington. when i was little i used to think that every state had a lexington and that this place was the hub of all cool things. like lexington was a mall or something that spanned miles and miles with restaurants and shoe stores.

I used to use the phrase hockey puck for coffee cup and hockey sack for pocketbook. I don't ever remember watching or hearing about hockey......strange.

When I was a kid I really thought there was a Sesame Street. I kept asking my mom & dad if I could go too sesame street and see big bird.

When I was a child, I used to think that separating Quebec from Canada involved actual physical separation. Needless to say, I was puzzled as to how this would be accomplished. I thought someone would actually saw along the borders.

As a kid growing up in the Jersey suburbs, I thought that because New York and Newark had similar sounding names, they must be in the opposite direction from each other.

When I was young I believed that if you stayed in another country for an extended period, you started to look like its inhabitants (change if skin colour, hair colour, facial characteristics, height, etc.)

I think that my sons who are now 19 and 22 watched the nightly news far too often as young children - one day they asked me very innocently - 'Where's gunpoint?" G'd Bless them - they thought that everyone held at gunpoint were actually in a town called 'gunpoint'!