the world

i used to believe that the heavier money was, the more it was worth. sadly, i traded £20 notes for £1 coins. i did this until i was twelve and my mum spotted me. she asked wy i was doing it, and i siad
i want to be rich mummy.
i was devastated when i found out that i had lost around $500 pounds altogether.

Once my mum was given a £10 not to share with her sister. Only being 4 she ripped it straight in half, thinking she was being generous, only to be hysterically laughed at by her whole family!

As a child I used to watch a bit of soccer/football on TV. I knew they had the red card, which meant you were in serious trouble and the yellow card, which meant you were in a bit of trouble. But I was also convinced there was a green card, which the referee would only get out if you'd been really good. I never did see them use it, though...

When I was a kid, I used to think, to get on the George Washington Bridge, you had to drive up the support cables that span the top of the bridge instead of driving on the flat pavement.

As a youngster I attended many Milwaukee Braves baseball games at County Stadium. At the end of the national anthem when they sang "and the home of the brave" I thought it was "and the home of the Braves", in Chicago they would sing "and the home of the Cubs", and so on for each team.

I thought Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon. It made sense to me that we'd elected those guys because we saw their faces on the side of a mountain. When I learned it was man-made, I wondered what was so great about it.

There are a couple of islands off the coast by the beach where my family vacationed in Maine. I assumed they were England for many years.
My brother came to the same conclusion independently, and at one point informed us that Lake Michigan was bigger than the Atlantic Ocean, since you could see the other side of the Atlantic Ocean!

I used to think that it was a terrific idea that you could write a cheque to pay somebody instead of giving them money. My naive little brain didn't realise that you had to pay the money into the bank first!

when i was little i vividly remember long arguments with my dad. I used to think that if you walked from shore to shore to shore and kept on going you could walk your way around the world.I cant belive i used to belive that

When I first went on the baltimore beltway, my father told me that the beltway went all around the city. I thought that he was refering to the grass area inbetween the inner loop and outer loop. I was conviced that that was baltimore. Which confused me a little since we lived in baltimore.

I live in Washington D.C. One time my mother had to go to Boston for a business trip. Because I was 5, I thought that was somewhere near Wyoming. I asked her if they all wore cowboy hats in Boston.

I used to believe that bank withdrawal slips could be used as money, but only adults could use them. I would try VERY hard to write neatly on them, so it looked like adult writing. I was never too gready, I usually wrote them out for $5, because that would buy me heaps of mixed lollies at the school canteen.

When I was about 5, my family went to New Hampshire and saw the Old Man of the Mountain. My parents were pointing at it and asking me if I could see the old man. Well, here I was thinking there really was this old man up there and wondering why we were bothering him, staring at him like that!

Im 20 and untill about a year ago whenever I would fill out paper work that asked your race I would always mark OTHER because I thought that caucasian was some kind of person from asia!

I believed that Lap-Land was actually a place where all lap dancers were, and i couldn't understand why fathers took their son's there i thought it was a bit sick! lol

One day I was at the park with my five year old daughter and a Muslim couple was walking towards us. The woman was wearing a light gray burka that only revealed her eyes. I knew as soon as my daughter noticed her that there would be some type of awkward moment. Sure enough, as soon as my daughter noticed her (and by now they were well within earshot) she said, "Oooooh, somebody thinks they're a ghost." The man just smiled as I'm sure he realized that my daughter had never seen someone in a burka before. I have no idea if the woman smiled. :)

I sincerely believed that Mexico and Texaco were two states next to each other somewhere "down south".
After seeing an atlas of the US in my granddad's car, I spent my car trips with my nose pressed against the window, desperately watching to see the enormous "IOWA" that must have been painted on someone's field. I could never fully explain to anyone what I meant when I asked them if they'd seen "the BIG IOWA" yet.
Amazingly enough, I am allowed to mingle in the general population.

I used to believe that California was it's own country, aka "America". When we took a family vacation at Thanksgiving to visit my grandparents in Alaska, I kept asking my parents how many days until we returned to America. They kept telling me that we were, in fact, still in America but just in another state. I still didn't quite get it, but, I kept my mouth shut because I was afraid they were going to get even more upset by my questions.