I used to think that Scotland Yard was just a yard in Scotland and couldn't work out why it was on the news all the time.....
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I used to think that Margeret Thatcher was married to Ronald Reagan, because they were always on tv together!
I used to believe…
that people in shops gave you 'change' if you didn't quite have enough money to pay.
My parents told me that if I dug straight downwards, I would get to Australia - so that's what i tried to do.
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That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.
The world was really much smaller than I was being led to believe. In fact my suspicion was that my dad would drive us to my Grandad's house by the most circuitous route possible to give me the impression that it was much further away than it really was. I believed that Britain was probably only about 20 square miles. Worst of all I believed that my dad had told everyone else what he was up to. All just to make me suffer on long boring car journeys - it was so cruel. I was an only child.
My son David thought that Trafalgar Square would be full of chickens. He also thought that any place underground was part of London. (What had I been telling him??)
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Inexplicably, I genuinely believed that if you drove to the end of Holloway Road, you'd eventually arrive at the moon.
I grew up in London and remember seeing lots of cranes and building sites in the city (as there still are). I used to think that one day, London would be completed, and that then all the builders would pack up and go home.
When I was little I worried about the Iron Curtain, I worried that the curtain pole would break as iron was heavy!! I also wanted to know how they secured the curtain pole and where it started and finished!
i used to believe that african natives were great at olympics because they ran away from lions and jumped up trees!
A friend told me (and I didn't totally disbelieve him either) that when you go in an aeroplane on holiday, the plane just flies around and around in the sky, while the people on the ground change the scenery and the temperature. The more complicated the change, the longer you stayed in the sky (which is why places like Japan take so long to get to). Then, when the people on the ground were finished, you would land back at the same place, but never know the difference!
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I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".
I thought that when you bought things with cash the shop assistant always gave you some back - didn't understand what change (i.e. the difference) was.
When I was 6 I went to an exhibition with my friend Nicholas and we saw a map on the wall and neither of us could read all of the words, and for years after I thought Egypt was pronounced Eggyput.