the world

When I was in elementary school, I told one of my teachers that when I was older, I wanted to travel the world and find a new country. I was very upset when she told me that she was pretty sure all the countries has already been discovered.

I used to believe that politicians were honest; I was so naive...

I used to believe that the stereotypical politeness of Far Eastern Asia was because everyone there knew martial arts. Logically, you would never be rude to anyone in case they'd kick your ass.

i used to think that Australia was the whole world.

When I was a kid I used to think that people who lived south of the equator had their own globes and maps of the world upside down to our with "south" pointing "up" and "north" pointing "down". No one ever told me that, I just assumed that was just the way it had to be..

i thought that no matter what u bought you always were supposed to get change back, well i once bought a movie with the money my dad gave me and turned out it was exactly 5 dollars, i remeber just standing there waiting for my change and the cashier looking at me weird, and my dad pulling me aside and explaing money, but i still didnt understand and threw a fit when i didnt get my change and realized i had spent all my money.

For ages I used to believe that Tony Blair was the government because evertime I heard Tony Blair, I heard government and everytime I heard government I'd hear Tony Blair

when i was really young, my dad took me to a New York Knicks game. They were doing really bad, and everyone was silent. then the screen that said "make some noise" came up. I was cheering my head off, thinking that I was making the bar raise my myself (i looked liked an idiot around everyone else). It took me about3 years to realize that the screen went the meter went up on its own

I used to believe that all adults always had money. I remember asking my mom for some money once and being shocked and not believing her when she said she didn't have any.

When I was around 12, I thought that the nosebleed section of venues or stadiums was for people like me who frequently got nosebleeds. I envisioned a section of people with handkerchiefs held to their noses, paramedics nearby, just freely bleeding while enjoying a concert or a baseball game.

When I was little I used to believe when i went on road trips that the world was being built as i went along and that it would disapear as i would leave that area

In Kindergarten, I used to believe that when you "borrowed" money, you had to pay back the same coins or bills you borrowed. In the 1960's, milk at school cost a nickel. Sometimes the teacher would suggest that a student who forgot his or her milk money "borrow" a nickel from someone else. But if the nickel went to the cafeteria to pay for the milk, how could you pay the same nickel back to the person you borrowed it from?

I knew that gravity would allow people to walk around in the southern hemisphere and not fall off the world, but I always imagined that their hair would stick straight out, as though the people were dolls with their feet glued to a globe.

When I was very young I assumed adults bought money at stores. Since money was the only means which I knew of to make purchases, I deduced they bought money with money at a 1:1 ratio, which made no sense even then but seemed like the only rational possibility

I lived in New Hampshire and I knew that, but I thought New Hampshire was where Idaho is. I got their shapes mixed up. It seemed to me that there was a bridge we'd always drive towards but always pull off the highway before we went under it. I figured California was just on the other side of the bridge.

I am Canadian, and when I was small, we went to visit my aunt's family in America for Christmas. My aunt had married into a Jewish family, and my older brother told me that her family did not usually celebrate Christmas, but they would this year just because we were coming. I knew nothing about Judaism, so I assumed, and believed for several years, that Americans (the only differnce I understood being our nationality) did not celebrate Christmas.