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I used to believe that Labor Day was a day for honoring all the pregnant women who were going into labor.

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I used to think until I was 12 that Fremantle footy team were based in Victoria. Duh.

I live in California. While in the car at night on the highway, I used to think that the lights I saw were from New York, since my parents said they come from big cities.

My dad used to lay tile. He joked that he would make it to the Olympics and compete in tile-laying, and I thought there really was such an event in the Olympics.

I used to think there was a center spot in the world. And whenever i gaze up the sky, i thought i had found that spot

My gran used to live in a coastal town an hour and a half away fom my town. Her back yard isn't fenced, its just gose out to this small feild shaded with spaced out trees, a bit ferthur beyond that was a wide river that went out to sea. Every time I went to the river, i could see the shore on the other side of the wide river. I used to belive that shore was the edge of new zealand, beacuae the town(newcastle) was on the southern east coast of Australia. I soon learned from my older brother when i told him that new zealand is much much further away than that.

I used to believe that racing cars with the number 100 on the side would always win the race, since it was the biggest number. And the car that had "1" was supposed to come last.
It seems that I missed the whole concept of compeditive racing.

When I was little I used to think that any political race (like presidential) was an actual relay type race and that they ran around a track passing the baton off to vice presidential candidates

i used to always think that there was someonesiting ina little both behined the cash machine fedding money and cards in and out and i used to always worry about the man iinsed the tv-who was controling it-not having enogh food.

When I was 5 or so, my dad told me that Albequerqi, New Mexico was named after Al Bequerqi. He said Mr. Bequerqi was dieing, and had learned that they were trying to rename his hometown, so he got them to name it after him, Albequerqi...

I hadn't thought about this until last week (I'm 15), when my dad and I were trying to figure out the capital of New Mexico, and I said, "Isn't it Albequerqi? Yeah, cause you told me the story about that!" He said, "What?" And I preceeded to retell him about Mr. Bequerqi.

I was devastated when he told me this wasn't true, and he denies ever telling me this. When my mom came home later, I pointed at dad, virtually screaming, "HE MADE UP MR. BEQUERQI!"

I used to believe that every person in the United States was left handed.

When I was 3, in 1991, the priest at our church was named Father Bush. I thought he was President :-P I remember he came to the Senior Dinner the girl scouts ran (I was a girl scout) and I was so jealous because this girl I hated got to serve him his dinner and I really wanted to serve dinner to the president!!!

When I was younger, I was gonna go to Mexico for the summer, but I was so confused, cuz I had bought color clothes, but I thought Mexico was black and white!

For the longest time I thought that the entire world was living in the past while the United States was the only country in the present. Ex: I thought that anyone from Africa lived in a hut and if you were from China you lived like Mulan. When an African foreign exchange student came to live with us I asked her if she had ever been chased by a lion. Bewildered, she said no. Then I wanted to know if they took field trips to the Savannah. No, they didn't. Finally I tried showing her how appliances work, thinking she'd be amazed by electricty, turns out she had all of those things too! I was sooo confused. It took a long time for me to realize that people from different countries live in houses just like ours. lol

When I was little I used to think that mexico was on the clouds because U had to take a plane to get there.

When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name