the world

I believed that Washington D.C. was in the state of Washington until I was about 17!! I skipped school alot:(

I used to think the sun and the moon were the same planet!

I thought when I was a kid that people just went to the bank to get money, like it was simply a money source. I was always so confused as to why my parents would complain about having no money.

When my sister and I were young we would pester our parents for a McDonalds but the only reply we got was: "Sorry, we don't have McDonalds money". For a while I believed that there were coins bearing Ronalds face.

i used to think that countries boundaries were determined by the best runners in the country. they would all go to the capital city, and then they would run in all possible directions, and wherever one met another from a different country, that's where the border would be.

you can imagine the russians ran like all hell.

When my mom was little--six or seven--she had a friend of the same age. My family is Armenian, and my mom's friend is a Wonderbread American girl.

So, at dinner one night, my mom's friend asked her parents,

"Mom, Dad, if Vicky is OUR-menian, are we HER-menian?"

Forty five years later, she still loves that story.

I used to believe that Celtic had an age-old rivalry with Queens Park Rangers.

Imagine my humiliation when, at the age of 20, and pretending to know about football, I had to be informed that there was a Glasgow Rangers. And that Celtic did not have a (frankly weird) thing against the London club QPR.

I live near a beach and when I was little we'd go down to the beach almost every day. There's an island nearby, and when I was little I'd look out over the water and think that island was England.

When I visited my cousins in California I saw another island off the beach and desided it was Japan. On the way back I reasoned it couldn't be Japan, Japan's too far away. It must have been Hawaii.

when my dad used to play this online game i watched him play and when you got to a certain point of the eath there was just black and you fell off i was scared to go outside cause i thought if i walked to far i might fall off the eath

Not mine but my ex-husband's.
He was always talking aboutliving in 'old mexico' for awhile when he was in his teens. I always thought he said that to differentiate it from the state new mexico. Imagine my suprise (and disbelief) when I found out that my 40 YEAR OLD husband said 'old' mexico because he thought that it was a state, like north and south dakota, east and west virginia there was old and new mexico not just the country of mexico!

I used to believe that there was one of me in each country around the world, and if I was patient enough, I would eventually meet up with them. I couldn't wait to meet the French version of me, the Chinese me, the Mexican me...

The Whit house down the street was the real "White House".

When my sister was little, my father would always talk about what a dirty crook Nixon was. She thought he was an a crook like a burglar and was scared that Nixon was going to break into their house at night and rob them.

I always thought that Hawaii and Alaska were next to each other, just a little bit below, Texas because on Maps they always put them next to each other! I couldn't figure out how two states so close to each other could have such drastically different climates!

For the longest time (maybe until I was 10 or 11) I could have sworn that there was a 3 dollar bill. I thought I had remembered seeing one and then I never saw one again. I don't know why or where I thought I saw this, but it stuck with me.

i used to believe the prime minister had a secret camera in every house so he knew if you were saying bad things about him-im still abit paranoid now!