I haven't seen this variation on the Watergate theme yet:
Like a lot of the others here who were around six or seven years old during Watergate, I had a very literal interpretation about some kind of "Water Gate" that was broken, clogged or overflowing in some way. I put that together with all the "bugs" I kept hearing about and thought that if you turned on a sink faucet bugs would come pouring out. I only remember being afraid of the faucets for a day or two (it was probably only an hour, lol!) before my parents straightened it all out for me but I I still think about it every time I hear the word Watergate.
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I used to believe that american footballers wore special shoulder pads which moulded their shoulders to make them so big and square...and I believed this until I was 15
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When I was younger, and the stock market report appeared on the news, I thought "volume" meant how high everyone's television sets were turned up.
I used to believe…
that therewere only 2 countries in the world: Canada and the US
Until about age 7 or 8 I though that North Dakota had a coast, because it only had other states on 3 sides & my home state had 3 states & then the ocean on the 4th side.
My mum used to take me to preschool on her bike. On the way we'd pass a place where American troops stayed, near a defence base, and they flew the American flag (we're in Australia). For years I thought that I was visiting America on my way to preschool
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When my mom took me to a women's basketball game I wanted to bring my basketball because I thought I was going to play the game.
When I was little and someone would talk about Greenland, they would always say things like "up to Greenland" (because it's up North, naturally), but I always understood it as if it was in the sky. So I was always looking for a gigantic, floating country in the sky...
When I was small I used to think Africa was one whole country
Growing up in the southern US, we would sometimes pass tobacco fields which had rows of leaf drying houses in them. There were no windows in those houses and my dad told us kids that blind people lived in those houses.
Every time we would pass them I would look to see if I could spot a blind person outside, and I thought that when I got older I would go and get them and tell them they were living in houses that had no windows and that wasn't fair.
As a kid I didn't know that one dollar equals 100 cents (like in any other currency) So when I was 7 or 8 and I was reading new issue of my favorite "Donald Duck" comic magazine, there was a story od Donald hired by uncle Scrooge to take his place in worrying so he would have more time to count his money. The rate was thirty cents per hour. When after four hours they realized that Scrooge had forgotten what was Donald supposed to worry about and he started panicking that one dollar and twenty cents was wasted for nothing. Forgetting that this 1,20$ was for four hours, I assumed that since dollar and twenty cents was like thirty cents, then one dollar was ten cents! It even seemed logical to me, since ten cents was such a nice round number, and this money amount was so often referred to in movies, so it must have been equivalent of one dollar! It was way later when I read it again and realized about these four hours, and that 0,30$*4=1,20$, and that if one dollar was really ten cents, then thirty cents would just make three dollars, instead of 1,20!
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When I was four, I got into an argument with my uncle. He said that the vice president was Spiro Agnew. I said it was Uncle Sam.
in base ball...
1. the umpire would walk you if he liked you. my dad was the umpire, and i wasn't very good at baseball.
2. srikes were determend by how evil the picture looked.
I used to think that when the crowd at a football match were whistling at the referee they were all actually screaming.
The first time I was on a plane I looked out the window and saw the seperate plots of farmland. I thought I was looking at the state borders and I got really confused when I couldn't recognize any of the states!
I had heard of certain suburbs of big cities referred to as "bedroom communities" before I ever actually visited such a place. When I first did visit residents of such a suburb, I was very surprised to find that they lived in entire houses, and not just bedrooms.
The world is flat.
When I was little I use to think that the United States was the entire world. I was shocked when I found out otherwise!
well, when i was 5 years old i was in the former checersslovakia(sorry about spelling its late at night) when they split into slovakia and chek republic, i thought a huge lazer beam from space was goona come and cut the country in-half, meanwhile it was only a line drawn on a map how bizarre
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when my sister was little she thought that in order to do gymnastics, you had to find a gym first that did nastics.