the world

When I found out we were moving to "the South" I was upset because I didn't want to live on a houseboat in the bayou and have to fight off alligators and mosquitos.

That's okay, though, for when we got there, many kids asked me what it was like living in Arizona in Teepees without electricity or paved roads.

When I was in sescond grade when my teacher would ask me 2 touch a certain country on the map i as afraid that i would crush thed people living there. I never touch my country in fear that i would kill myself.

when ever people said ther is an oriental rug i thought it was made from asian people

I used to believe that checker pieces were a kind of money. Products ordered from television commercials always told you to send $9.95 checker money order to some PO box.

I used to believe that Houston was a place where if you went, you would never be able to return. Kind of like Hotel California or some similarly scary place where they pretend to be nice and never let you leave. My dad used to go there a lot of business trips, and I have a distinct memory of finding out one day that he was packed to go to HOUSTON, and I was so horrified that I blocked our front door and refused to let him go. This wasn't a matter of separation anxiety, it was a matter of personal security! I think I made him late for his flight... I don't know where I got this idea, I could have sworn one of my parents told me, but now that I think about it, it really doesn't make sense that they would, does it?

i used to think that 'uncle sam' was a real person...who took all my parent's money!

I was 7 during the first Quebec referendum (you know, the first time they were deciding if Quebec should separate from Canada?). My parents let me stay up late to watch the reuslts, and when the 'Non' side won, I jumped up and yelled "Yay! We get to stay in Canada!!"

Part of me thought that the whole province would physically separate and have bridges to the other provinces and the US as the only connecting points.

When I was little I remember that my parents said the State of the Union would be on TV that night. We lived in Florida at the time, and I was really, really hoping we would win. I thought State of the Union was a title just like Man of the Year. We didn't win, did we?

When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state.

A friend of mine lives in the suburbs outside of Boise, ID. They have four kids and whenever they go to downtown Boise, they tell them they're going to New York City. So that's what the kids call it, and they really think that it is New York City.

I used to believe…

watching pro wrestling when i was 10, i used to think it was real. i used to think certain stuff/storylines were real like Sgt Slaughter getting boots from Saddam, real Mounties using a taser weapon,Yokozuna a real japanese(in real life hes samoan)Undertaker having a clone

I used to believe that Europe was made up of six separate countries: France, Paris, London, Venice, Switzerland, and Brittany. I have a map that I drew in third grade to prove it.

I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.

I used to believe that the picture of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the penny was actually the trolley from Mister Roger's Neighborhood. It took a lot of convincing on my parents part to eventually come to terms with the truth!

I remember when i was little i had a basic idea of the world. Except that when ever some one mentioned england or london i thought"that must be in/near Kentucky." maybe i was confused by the fact that there is a place called new london like that nearby. great britan confused me even more

When the baseball announcer would mention Randy Johnson's nickname, The Big Unit, for years I thought they were calling him "The Big Eunuch." I could not imagine why they would call him that unless it was because he was so big!