I used to believe that you weren't allowed to spend change. I bought something at this elementary school book sale and got change back and wanted to buy something else but thought I couldn't.
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When I was 4 or 5, I was told that the man who had built our house had moved to Florida when he was finished. I imagined a state covered in tile as far as the eye could see, with lots of houses sitting there on that giant FLOOR, built by the guy who built our house and was maybe just tired of hills and grass and stuff.
I remember my mom explaining languages to me while in a mall after hearing someone speak spanish. For some reason after that I always associated the Japanese with suits from the mall and thought you could tell someone was Japanese if they were wearing a suit.
When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I used to believe that if I dug straight down through the earth in my sandbox that I would reach China. Well I eventually learned that, that is not true :)
I live in oregon and just to the north is a city called camas, which has a paper factory that is very stinky. when visiting my grandma we would have to pass it, and my parents would say "smells like the camas plant"....so i was under the impression that camas was an actual stinky plant that the city was named after. It wasn't till i was an adult that i found out - there is no stinky camas plant other than the factory
When I was little, there was always talk something on T.V. about sports or the Book of Records. They would talk about the guy who 'broke the record'. I always pictured people standing outside and smashing LPs on the ground, and never understood why that was so important.
For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D
My grandparents really liked watching football games on TV when I was little and I was always amazed at how loud the referees could yell so everyone in the stadium could hear when they made a call on a play. I was kind of disappointed to learn years later it was a wireless mic that broadcast the man's voice over the sound system in the stadium. Heh.
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I used to believe that it was customary to receive change regardless of how much you give to the clerk... Like a bonus for shopping at the store.
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I used to think it was the United STEAKS of America and that cows must be really important in the U.S.
We used to go to my grandma's, on the interstate. We never went further and I believed that all the cars were falling off the side of the world.
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This is quite sad. A friend of mine, in high school, thought that Alaska was an island surrounded by a box in the Pacific Ocean.
When I was about 6, my dad told me that the stock market crashed. Needless to say, I was determined that this meant the stock market building rolled down a big hill and broke.
I used to have a big map of United States of America on my bedroom wall and each states have different colors. I live in Minnesota and the map's color for Minnesota is green- there are green trees and grasses everywhere. I visited Iowa during autumn and everything are orange as the map stated. I thought every states' grasses and trees' colors are exactly as what the map shows.
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For whatever reason I thought that if you stepped right on the equater you would get sucked to the center of the earth.
(I live in the united States)
I used to believe that China was over the mountains. So When I was in Kindergarden our bus driver got mad at us for being loud on the bus and said, "you better be quiet, or I will turn this bus around and take you all over the moutain and make you go back to school!" I was scared because I didn't to go to school in China. I wanted to go to school in the united states. I was also scared of chiniese people at the time.
I used to think that the black market was a real place.
When I was a kid I used to think that when I was at the beach in Ocean City, NJ that if I could just swim out far enough or maybe get high enough above the beach I could see Africa. I guess that's technically true.
I used to belief that the countries in the world were actually small planets. All together they would make up the Earth. So, if I would visiting another country, I would have to fly through a tube to get into the other country.
You can imagine the surprise when we visited Germany (I'm Dutch) and it was just at the other end of the street.
What a ripoff!
For a while, I thought Vegas and Las Vegas were two different cities.