i used to believe that money came from a plant. that if you planteted a penny you would have a penny tree and you would have tons of money. i planted over 10 dollars worth of money at the house i lived in.
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my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.
i used to believe that behind the trees across the railway line (about 15 metres away)was sheffield, it's actually about half a country away, and that the end of my road led to nowhere. naturally, i don't do so great in geography these days.
my aunt from germany came to our state (ohio) and we went to a museum with her which was only about 1 hour away and I thought she took us to germaNY CUZ THE STREet signs were blue!!! (instead of green)
so i was olways saying ''can you take us to germany again!?'' XD
When I was little, I used to *honestly* believe that whoever won the Presidential race became the President, and whoever came in second was the Vice President.
I think I got it from the Miss America pageant. You know how, when they get ready to announce the first runner up, they say, "She will take over the title if the winner cannot perform her duties" or something like that? Well, when I found out that if the President died or just couldn't be President anymore, then the VP took over, I figured that the VP must be the "first runner up" for President.
It seemed completely logical to me when I was little, and now, looking back on it, I wonder if it might even work.
When I was about 5 years old my brother and sister had me believe that pennies were made of gold so that I would trade my quartes dimes and nickles for pennies
A few years ago my grandparents drove to Alaska for a vacation. When my mom told me, I asked if she meant they had their car put on a boat so they would have it in Alaska... We both figured out eventually that I had no clue Alaska is attached to Cananda since throughout my early education Alaska is in the corner of the map with Hawaii, floating around in the Pacific. I almost died when I found out, and my mom nearly died when she found out I had just found out!!! I was in my early twenties and in college. Scary, huh?!?!
I used to think "foreign" was a country, since I heard people saying "foreign country" a lot. And I also use to think America's president (at the time Bill Clinton) is also president for every single country in the whole world.
I used to believe when I was little that it was well known that after a certain period of time, the British would invade. I even had dreams about their military marching, millions of them, but all they did was march, nothing else happened. I don't know where the idea came from, probably something sarcastic my dad told me.
when i was about 8, my brother (who was 10) told me that if there were no trees, buildings, or houses in sight from our house all the way to Washington DC, we would be able to see the Washington Monument in clear view, without a telescope. I believed this until i was 15..
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My little brother once asked me,
"Erin, if Samuri Jack is Japanese, why isn't he black and speak Spanish?"
My mom once gave me a box of old, unused checks, saying I could play with them. But I didn't want to play with them. I thought they were just like money and I wanted to use them for real. I thought that if only I knew how to fill them out, I could use them to buy things at the toy store. I thought about all the wonderful things I could buy if only I knew how to fill out checks.
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I used to believe "Pedestrians" was a political party like Democrats or Republicans.
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I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!
when i was about 6 i used to hang around with these 12 yr olds down my street and one day i found a pound on th pavement and the eldest girl told me that i could buy a house with that. i just got all excited bout it then i was plannin where i was gonna live and everything. when i got home i was braggin to my mum that id found a POUND and she was like 'okaaaaaay then.' and yea i did find out that i cudnt ave my dream mansion :(
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cuz I grew up in ugoslavia whos president at that time was TITO who was like KING and GOD I USED to believe that tito do not shit at all and that was so big question for me
On every Election Day, every state has 'electoral votes', I thought they said "electoral volts" which means something to do with electrical and whoever president has electrocuted by by a higher voltage win the election.
I used to believe that Texas was all black and white, people rode on horses, and everybody carried a gun like in the old western movies. When our airplane had a layover in Texas, I was extremely dissapointed, on the verge of tears, to realize it was really in color, and I only saw one person with a cowboy hat.
As a child I had VHS tape with many cartoons. One of them was about H.Barbera's characters (Yogi Bear etc.) as they had to do something in some India-like town (lot of funny-dome palaces and all that other stuff), and before they arrived there, they had said sth like "We have to fly to New Jersey". I thought New Jersey was that place in the India they visited later, and because of in Polish many nouns in genitive have "a" on the end changed into "i" or "y" (i.e. to Ruda -> do Rudy), for many years I believed they were talking about city in India called Nyujersia. I realised they were talking about USA late in elementary school, as I noticed that every time that US state N-E-W J-E-R-S-E-Y was spelled just as that mysterious place in India!
My family moved to Maryland in time for me to start the second grade there. One day my teacher asked, "Who can name a famous person from Maryland?". I proudly answered, "Maryland Monroe!"