the world

I never realized that there was a difference between silver (those minted before 1964 were made entirely of silver) dimes and quarters and "normal" dimes and quarters (the copper sandwich). As a result, I used to raid my mother's stash of silver coins to buy ice cream from the ice cream man!

when my mother uised to refer to 'all n'sundry' I thought that Sundry was a country and that we were talking about all in Sundry. I was quite worried to hear about 'all in Sundry' knowing our business

I am from Norway, and when I was younger I didn't know the difference beetween the capital in Norway (Oslo) and our neighborcountry Sweden. So - I thougth that I had been abroad if I had been in Oslo ...

Back when I first started school we were taught to remember directions: north was my head, south my feet, east my right hand, and west my left hand. So, to get to Alaska I would have to go straight up into the sky. Now I use a compass.

I used to believe that, because my mum told me that the world was eternal (as in circle, didn't understand that though), that the world really was eternal and that i could never visit every country in the world. So when I asked my mum if I could visit every country in the world, I was very surprised when she said yes!

When I was a kid i belived that that the country i lived in, Norway, covered the entire world, and that all the other countries like England, USA, China and so on was a planet of there own (usa=mars, England=Jupiter and so on)

Whenever I asked my parents if I could call my friend in America they told me I couldnt because she would be asleep so I thought all they did in America was sleep all the time.

i used to believe that i could store all my money inside my vagina and it would grow cos that's where i grew in my mummy.

When I was very young, I thought the word lesbian was the term for a citizen of Lebanon.

I used to believe that whenever you took money out of the bank, you had to put the same amount of money back immediately. What the point of that would be, I have yet to figure out..

When I was little, my dad told me that football was the game of god(he didn't mean it ,he just loved football).For years after ward I thought the winners went to heaven and the losers went to hell.

You know how when you were at school sometimes the "1st Team" of whatever sport would play against the Coaches and former pupils etc etc? (i.e. The current best team verus the best previously)

As a child and not the biggest football (soccer) fan I used to think that Newcastle were a team of referees (and of course the referees had to be the best in order to judge the game in the first place!). This was mainly due to their black and white kit of course.

I still don't know anything about football.......

When I asked my Mum what Dad's job was she told me that he made money. For years I went around boasting that my Dad was rich cos he made the money and brought some home after he had made it.

Iam from Norway,I used to believe that I could dig a tunnel from Norway to Chaina.And that I could "travel" thru the tunnel all the way to Chaina, but not "travel" back in the same tunnel.And maybe it would take years to dig a new one so I could go home.Scary!!!

My grandpa was from Florida. When he would come to visit he would stay in a hotel in our town. My little brother, Davey, thought that when we would visit him there that we were going to Florida where he lives.

I live in Australia and when I was four I used to think New South Wales (the state where Sydney is situated) was actually in England.