I used to think that if you went into a shop, and didn't have enough money for what you wanted, the shopkeeper would give you the rest of the money so you could get it, and that's what "change" was... how much better would life be if that really happened?
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I used to think that Norwich was Britains answer to Las Vegas, all because of the glamourous image projected by Nicholas Parsons and Sale of the Century. Palm trees, big cars, beautiful women.
Sadly, this belief persisted until I was 19 or so, and actually went to Norwich, and found out it was a dump.
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remember the commercials with Phil Rizzuto for "the money store"? I thought it was a store that sold money at bargain prices.
When there was a Western movie on telly I wondered why the town of Yonder was always nearby...As in 'Over yonder' or 'he was heading off yonder'. Took me years to work out that America was much bigger than I thought.
I used to think that Chicago was pronounced "Chick-ago". Oh well!
Growing up in the early 70s I used to think that England was part of America. My father would have the radio news on every morning, and all they would talk about was President Nixon, Watergate and Americans fighting in Vietnam.
My Dad told us that Bodmin Beacon (a granite war memorial in Cornwall) was Cornwall's "Coal-fired space rocket", and that it just never got off the ground. We believed him.
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I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!
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My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.
When I was quite young (around 3), I remember hearing my Grandmother telling us that she was going on vacation to Miami, Florida.
I didn't want her to go without me, so I asked her if I could also go to 'Your Ami'.
When i was small the main things i knew about my dad was that he played a lot of sport and had a big moustache. For a very long time i thought my dad was both Ian Rush and Daley Thompson and told my friends that my dad was on Grandstand. In reality my dad was playing in the pub league in Devon and has never done the decathalon.
I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives
My wife used to think that mow a meadow was a place
I used to believe that when my Dad went on business trips to America, he could die, because they had cut down all the trees so there was no more oxygen(!).
After watching Tiswas or Multi-Coloured Swap Shop of a Saturday morning - sandwiched into the sofa, waiting for mother to drag us all out shopping - there was the boring television that followed.
A particularly disturbing episode of "It's the Wolf" was usually followed by an unending weather forecast, with sloppily-sticking magnetic pads.
Then it was time for Grandstand - the then grand but now somewhat delapitaded afternoon sports fest.
Raised in Epsom, at the foot of the hill that led up to the racecourse of Derby fame, I knew that the big tiered building at the end of the course straight after Tattenham Corner was called "The Grandstand".
Well, I put two and two together and naturally assumed that that was where the show was broadcast from.
I used to believe that Great Britain and Ireland were both circular in shape and were in the Southern Hemisphere, near Australia after something my Grandad said about Australia having the Queen as their head of state.
I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.
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I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.
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On the first day back at school after the summer break, my cousin was asked where he had been on holiday. "Chicken" he answered. He meant Turkey.
I used to think that Liverpool was so called because the town centre had a big swimming pool full of liver in it. My parents were so amused by this that they didn't correct me for years, wheeling me out at family get-togethers to tell everyone my theory.