I used to hear the business report on the radio and think they were saying that 25 million chairs were traded on Wall Street. I pictured a huge room with millions of metal folding chairs being moved around.
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I used to think that if you went to the bank and said "I need money!", they would give you as much money as you needed, no questions asked, as long as you paid them back! Boy, if the world only worked that way! ;)
I thought the "Continental United States" referred to states only attached to the continent of North America, and that all islands, like Hawaii, belonged to no continent. Until I was 16.
in elementary school we had to get a pen pal in a different state to find out about that state, I got utah, but no one bothered telling me what a state was so...
my letter to my pen pal in utah was:
"so what language do you guys speak? do you guys have a king & queen, or a president like us". I'm sure they still have my letter to read when they need a pick-me-up
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I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United States
When i was little i have no clue of what age..okay i live in mississippi in north america and i thought that mississippi was like a country and north america was a planet.. i have no clue how i came up with this idea.. and then i figured out north america wasnt one of the 9 planets!!
When I was around 7or 8, I had this urge to travel and go out on my own little adventure... I had heard in an old movie that you could dig to China... so that is what I tried to do, only I couldnt lift a shovel very well, so I used a tablespoon to start my digging. When I saw that this was taking too long, I took a trashbag outside and tried to "catch the wind" in it, so that it would lift me up and I could fly there.
When I was younger (don't want to mention exact age out of embarassment), I believed that we lived INSIDE the world. My point of revelation came when I was reading about the Great Flood in the Bible. I told my mom it didn't make sense because Noah and his family would have drowned when the water reached the top. She realized she had a lot of explaining to do!
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when ATM first came out...i thought they were giving out free money
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up until i was about seven, i could not grasp the concept that their really werent physical dividers between the states, like their were on most maps of the US used for weather.
when i was seven, my family went on the first road trip, and i was severely dissapointed when i found out "crossing the state border" only amounted to viewing a "welcome to" sign
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I used to go on holiday with my family to Cornwall every year, and always thought it was a single town called Cormorl.
I used to believe that there were only two countries in the world, England and France. Everything in France was the opposite to how it was in England, so a frown meant they were smiling, and when they cried it meant they were laughing!
when i was little i used to watch cricket on tv with my dad.
He used to yell 1,2... watching the ball cross the inner circle...
i always believed that if ball crosses inner circle they score 1 run .......
Later if found the truth that runs are taken by batsman and not by the ball.
that was hilarious when i think of it now....
I used to believe that "the bomb" was literally one bomb and resided in the White House, and I was fearful that some cleaning lady might drop it when dusting and that would be the end of us.
I used to believe that we lived inside the world. I was so confused to hear that we didn't because when I looked at the sky it looked like a big blue dome, and it was beyond me that we could live on top of a dome.
In a game of tennis, when the umpire announced the score as Deuce, I used to think that he/she was telling the players that it was break time and they were welcome to some "Juice" to drink!
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I used to believe that Canada was a territory of the U.S. and was one big forest.
we lived in cincinnati, ohio when i was a child and quite often drove into kentucky to get places. i was shamefully old before i realized that ky was actually another state b/c naturally i thought you had to go a long way to get to another state.
As a small child (about four years old), I went over my old friend's house and she had a nanny. Her nanny said that she was going to Sweden. I misheard it as "Sweet-n-low" (that brand of artificial sweetener) and I thought "She's going to the place where sweet-n-low is made?"
I used to beleive that there was someone just like me, in some far off place like CHINA or somewhere, and they looked the same, and had the same name, and did exactly the same stuff as me, at the same time. I thought that one day I would go to far off China and meet myself.