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I used to believe that Mexico and my family was in the sky, because we had to take a plane to visit them.
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In the early 80's, I remembered there was a huge campaign to the save the world from hunger such as the song "We are the world," and I also remember all the talk about space exploration. So when they had can food drives at my elementary school, I assumed that they were sending the food by rocket to Ethopia which was located on the Moon.
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I used to believe that those of Indian descent who had them were born with dots on their forehead.
When I was little, I thought Abraham Lincoln had a tail. Made sense at the time, considering that every time you had to make a decision, you'd toss a penny and call "Heads or tails!" and on one side of the penny you see Lincoln's head. I assumed that the picture on the other side was his tail. By extension I assumed that all presidents had tails and it was some sort of prerequisite.
When I was little I had heard the phrase "digging a hole to China." I have no idea where I heard this phrase from...but it stunned me. So...to see if it was really doable I took to the backyard and started to dig. I got about 1.5 feet, decided that no one could dig to China, and so gave up.
When i was little, i dug a hole in my backyard and found some shards of old broken dishware. i honestly blieved that this is what people meant when they spoke of "digging a hole to china" and assumed i had done so.
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I used to believe that as long as my mom had checks she had endless amounts of money.
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I used to think when my mom said "my check bounced" that an actual check was jumping off something, making a bouncing sound.
When I was younger, I had twin friends that just happened to like taking really hot baths. As they were part Japanese, I naturally thought that Japanese people were immune to hot water. I truly believed that you could dump scalding hot water on a Japanese person and they would be perfectly fine.
When I was little I used to believe that I had made up the country Italy (random I know, I have no idea where it came from). I was always surprised if other people knew about it, and I was only eight when I finally sussed it. I was devastated.
I used to believe that there were only two languages: english and spanish. Because of that, I thought there were only two countries: The U.S and Spain! I also thought Spain was about the size of Africa!
I used to believe the Earth was just the town I lived, in and that's it!
When I was little my dad would sometimes go out to play hockey with his friends. I thought he played on our local NHL team and announced this to my entire grade one class.
I guess many kids believed that one: I believed that if I buried coins in the earth, they would "breed" and multiply. At least, that's what a teenage boy told us. He told us to bury our money in his garden. Needless to say, when we checked back, all the coins were gone :-(
When I was little around the age of 5, my sister took a trip to England, and brought back coins. One day I saw the coins laying on a desk in her room and I took them. That night my sister came in my room and saw her coins on my desk, she came up to me and was like "Those coins!! K.k! Do you know what they are? They will come and kill you!" This of course scared the hell out of me. I asked who was comming and she was like, "the pirates! They are going to come and get you! You stole their gold!" I started crying asking her how to stop them from killing me. She then told me that I had to make a boat, and put the coins in it then go outside and put the boat in the pool. So I went and made a paper boat and put the boat in the pool with the coins in it. Then the next day I went down to the pool, the boat was still floating I grabbed the boat, and in it was a rolled up letter I read it, and it said "next time Ill get you!" So ever since then I believed that if I took coins from ppl then Pirates would come and kill you. I believed that until 2nd grade when I told some kid that because he took a coin off the floor.
Like a fellow contributor i also believed that the Elgin Marbles were big and round , but worse still at the age of 36 we travelled to Scotland on Holiday in our camper van. We went to the small town of Elgin, an then i wandered around trying to find where these famous marbles were housed. Eventually the woman at Tourist information informed me that they were in LONDON
When I was little, I always thought the Nasdaq was a bridge. To me, it sounded like the Verrizano or the Washington (I live near New York). I always heard on the radio "The Nasdaq is up/down", so natural I assumed it was a drawbridge.
when i was 5 i listened to the news on the radio and was tranfixed by the war with turkeys and greese. Boat loads of turkeys were arriving in greese intent on war.i was worried about the messs the turkeys would get into with all that oil on their wings.
when I was much older, I went on a Greek holiday and realised i had got it all wrong,
Ever since I was a baby my parents flew to Guatemala every year for vacation. By the time I was 3 yrs old my parents would always ask, especially in front of family members and friends, "Where is Guatemala?" Well....my response was "Up there!" and point my finger to sky and [i]everyone[/i] would laugh!!! Since the plane always went up I always had this feeling that Guatemala was located on top of a cloud. Yeah...afterward I figured it all out and why everyone laughed at me!
When I was 10 I got a baseball glove for my birthday and proceeded to demonstrate my version of a 'change-up'--a ridiculously slow wind-up followed by a sudden, last-second quick release! When friends came over my mom would call me over and say, 'Show them your "change-up"!'