the world

I used to think that there were three Americas: South America, America, and North America which were all floating in the sky. I knew I lived in America, so I thought South America was a giant chunk of land floating under us and North America was a giant chunk of land floating over us. That was why when we went somewhere that wasn't in America we had to get in a plane and fly into the sky.

I live in Oklahoma, and I used to believe that Kansas or anything else that was above (north) Oklahoma on a map was wayyyy way far up in the sky. It took awhile for me to get that north wasnt straight up.

When I was 3 or 4 my family went on vacation to Mt. Rushmore and when we got there we went to the gift shop and watched a video of the rock being blown up and falling down the mountain when they carved it. After that I was terrified because I thought the rock did that on its own and if we got close we would be crushed. I refused to get any closer than the parking lot.

i used to believe the quarterback was second in command (what an idiot i was)

When I was a little kid I thought downtown Denver was New York City, then I got a little older and thought, "well if thats denver this must be New York" but I was wrong again... it was Centennial.

My Son used to think that if you have no money all you had to do was go to the grocery store and the Cashier would give you some.

I was born in Miami, Florida.
So, I'm told, my father once told me "you were born in Miami" and I replied "nuh-uh, I was born in Mommy's Ami"

I used to believe that the airport control towers were great big fishtanks. This is because the one in Washington, D. C. (my nearby airport's control tower) had green glass surrounding it.

When my sister was a freshman in college, my mom called her to tell her her checking account was overdrawn. My sister didn't know what that meant and my mother said, "It means you don't have any more money!" My sister countered, "Yes I do! I still have a whole box of checks!"

When I was young, president Bush was president. For some reason, I thought Abraham Lincoln was the president that came right before bush, instead of Clinton. I recall bragging that I was alive when Abraham Lincoln was around. No one believed be, though.

Growing up in Australia we have a lot of people from New Zealand here. Because it is such a small country, i used to belive that Australians where the only people that knew about New Zealand!

I think this continued well into my teens untill i realised lord of the rings was filmed there!

While growing up in the Appalachian foothills, I believed that we drove past Mount Rushmore on the way to my grandparents' house, less than 50 miles away. These rocks were just places that the highway had been cut through the mountains, so of course they looked nothing like faces. That didn't shatter my beliefs, however. Nor did the lack of tourists. I instead just thought that adults must be idiots to think that those rocks were special.

When I was very small my dad used to take me, on his bike, to this park/woods area, where we would walk along the only path there, and I remember being very confused we always ended up at the same point we started out at, where our bikes were parked, even though we always walked 'straight' and never turned back...I guess I didn't really get the 'curves-in-roads'-thing...

When I was but a small boy, I heard the name of a place called "paradise." I really thought it was an actual place that you could visit. Where was it? Well naturally, I figured it was just north of Paris. My father explained to me that it's just an imaginary place. And then I wondered, why there were so many people wanting to visit this one imaginary place when you can't ever go there? My father couldn't quite explain it to me. It was just a few years later when it finally dawned on me what it really meant. LOL.

I used to think that the pihllipenes was pronounced

Philip Penis which is funny, coz my dads name was philip haha.

I also used to believe that if you turned on the hair dryer and pointed it at a globe, it would blow us all off the planet. *snerks at self*