When I was a little girl, I used to think that checks were like free money. When my mom explained to my sister and me that we were running out of money for that month, I suggested that she just write checks to pay for everything--problem solved.
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For years I didn't realise that "soccer" was football (i.e. English Association football). I thought the word was pronounced "sosser", and for some reason thought it was a game like throwing a frisbee.
I grew up thinking that the Washington Redskins were the president's football team because the president was from Washington (not the team)...
I used to believe that money really did grow on trees, but grownups just didn't want us to know about it.
I became addicted to video games at a young age, and it's lasted to the present day. When I was younger, I used to believe that video games got certain ideas like "pause" and "reset" from real life. The day this belief stopped, I was riding in the car somewhere with my family, and saw a tennis ball go rolling across the road from a nearby park. I screamed at my dad to "PAUSE THE GAME! PAUSE THE GAME!" We pulled over and I explained that I needed them to "pause it" so I could run and get the ball for the tennis players. My family was extremely amused (including my _younger_ sister!), and my parents suggested they take away my video games for a couple of weeks so I could get back in touch with reality. Needless to say, I shut up and never mentioned it again, although there are times I'll get the overwhelming urge to press a Reset button...
The first time I got to pay at the gas station, my grandpa gave me a twenty dollar bill.
When I gave the money to the clerk, I stood there for a while waiting for money back.
I thought gas was only .87 cents, and for the life of me couldn't understand why the
clerk kept the whole thing, not to mention my grandpa laughing at me.
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That if there was an Antarctica, there had to be and Arctica somewhere on the other end of the earth.
As a kid I was always hearing on the news about Ronald Reagan and his
"Star Wars" project. Having seen the movie, I naturally concluded that Star
Wars was a perfectly reasonable thing for "Ronald Ray-Gun" to be
interested in.
If you dug through the earth to the other side you would end up in China.
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that Uttoxeter was a huge and important place, cause all roads in Stafforshire point towards it
When I was wee and I got bored and played Monopoly with my siblings on rainy days, I always wanted "The Angel, Islington" because I believed that was where all the Angels lived and they threw parties there. It wasn't until I moved to London that I realised that it was just a tube station..and a rather skanky one at that.
Up until the 6th grade or so, I assumed that Washington D.C. was in Washington State. (Naturally!) It was a weird perception shift to realize the White House and the President weren?t just north of me, they were clear across the country.
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I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters.
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I thought that Armagh and Baghdad were next to each other because the names went together ('Our Ma' and , em, 'Bag Dad').
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for christmas when i was about 7, i was given this book that you coloured in, but the pages all had frames and subjects in. one page asked you to draw god, & i thought nelson mandela was god, so i found a picture of him and copied it. my mum was very confused, but thought it nice that i idolised him like that.
I used to believe that the president lived in Washington state and that he commuted to Washington D.C. for work. (because everyone always said "The president lives in Washington". I thought this was stupid and he should just live in D.C.
When I was growing up my grandfather loved to watch football on the television. I used to think that the players were really shaped the way they were. I didn't realize there was padding on their shoulders, so to me I thought they were monsterous people.
I also used to get freaked out everytime a television station would sign off for the evening at 11:00 or 11:30 p.m. Whenever they would start playing the national anthem, I would run into another room to get away from it. I have no idea why I was afraid.
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When we where young my father told my younger brother that he would not be allowed to go to the football (aussie rules) unless he could eat a Meat Pie with his hands without spilling any or becoming messy. (this can be quite difficult with the cheap pies that you get at the footy. He was told this to encourage better eating habbits/skills, You are not Australian unless you can do this :-)
Years later we went to see Gelong play, My brother stoped at the turn table where the ticket man stood. He wouldn't move,
My father said "Come on, other people want to get through",
"But he hasn't asked me the question yet." James replied,
Dad looked baffled, "What Question?"
"About the Pie,"
"Huh? what pie!?, come on, your holding up the queue"
"If can eat it without a knife and fork"
"Huh?, Oh... That's not really true, come on, your allowed in," said my father, then similing at the Ticket guy,
My mom was 40 and we were going to Chicago... she told me to "book a hotel room by the ocean." She also confessed that she thought Hawaii was up by New York. Nevermind, because until I was 18 I thought the Statue of Liberty was in Washington state.
I used to believe that the Tallest Mountain in the world, Mt Everist, was actually in my own country, Australia.