the world

At about age 7 I firmly believed I was going to be a world champion tennis player and no one was going to beat me. I don't play tennis anymore.

I used to believe that our next-door neighbour, Mrs Grigg, Annie Walker off "Coronation Street" and Margaret Thatcher were all the same person. They were all vaguely upper-middle-class, pompous and stuffy, and had "old-lady" perms - hence my confusion.

I'M 58 AND WHEN I WAS A KID BLACK PEOPLE
WERE REFERED TO AS : "colored people", so I thought there was a race of folks
that were pink, green, blue, red, orange
etc. I think this helped me to grow up
to not be a bigot!

When I was a kid, we went on a field trip to the downtown area of where we lived. Our teacher was telling us that all of the places we were visiting would turn up the heat for us or something of that nature, but I somehow thought that the city was going to heat the whole downtown. I remember telling my parents this and wondering why they were laughing.

I used to believe that my pennies would get lonely if I left one or two out by themselves on my dresser. Before going to bed I had to put them with the rest of my change. And I gave a great deal of thought to whether I should put them next to the other pennies I'd found them with, for familiarity, or if they'd like a change of company

When I was six year old, I believed him when my Daddy told me that nickels were worth more than dimes, because they were larger in size.

When I was seven, my parents took my brother and I on a trip. At the hotel we stayed in, there was this incredible fountain, and upon closer inspection, we saw the fountain had money at the bottom of it! Pennies, dimes, quarters! My brother and I thought we were rich!We reached into the fountain and started scooping up the money. It was then my mother told me that each coin was somebody's wish and if I took the coins their wishes wouldn't come true. So reluctantly, we put the money back in the water. I remember being surprised other people weren't trying to take the coins too. Maybe they already knew they were other people's wishes!

(i live in northern europe)i believed that america was placed where asia is, and duckburg was an independent city within the usa (!)

When I was 4 I ran in my first race in honour of the Queen at our local silver jubilee party,all was going well I was in front until I got to the tape and stopped then everyone ran past me through the tape and I was last they gave me a threepnee bit (dull old money when your 4)whilst the winner got 15p!Nobody told me you had to run through the bloody string!

When i was in first grade, we had " President Lincon" at our school, and when i saw the man who played lincon the next day at Chuck e. Cheese, I cried, becasue it wasnt really Lincon.

I used to believe that the whole world ended with Paris. I also thought Europe was a country! And every time you rewinded a videocassette or played it, little men inside the videocassette had to controll the filmrollers. Heh. I came to this conclusions all by myself.

When I was little I thought there were only two countries in the world: the US and the USSR. I knew the world was round, so I pictured the Soviet Union to the north (it was cold there) and the US kind of in the middle of the globe. Everything else was just water.

Can't believe no one put this already, since it was common knowledge among all my friends. I used to believe that the core of a golf ball was a highly toxic poison that would kill you.

My brother used to believe that if you had a credit card the cashpoint gave you infinite amounts of money. You'd only needed to plot in our desired amount. No wonder why he is a bad economist...

I didn't see an Indian person until I was about 2 years old, the Pakistani gent in question was about 90 years old, and I thought that when you got old you turned black.

When I was quite young I remember seeing an old war film on the TV. There was a Chinese man who had been shot and because it was black & white I thought from then on, that all Chinese people had dark brown blood!