the world

I was a small child during the twilight of the Soviet Union, and once the country Georgia (then a part of it) was mentioned on the nightly news. I started freaking out, thinking the Communists had invaded Atlanta. I was really worried that the Soviet Union would expand to Florida and the Carolinas and eventually to my house. My mother had to explain the difference between Georgia the country in Europe and Georgia the state by Florida.

When I was very young, I watched an after school show about polar bears, and the narrator referred to their habitat as "the top of the world: the Arctic." I saw all the ice and thought it was clouds, and since clouds were on top of the world, that must be where they'd gone to film the polar bears. It took my mother a while to explain that we couldn't go up to the clouds to meet the Eskimos and watch the polar bears.

I used to think that the football players with the higher numbers on their jerseys meant they were the better, stronger players than the ones with the lower numbers.

When I was a kid I looked forward to friends of my dad coming to visit as I knew they would always dig in their pockets and give me an nickle or dime!The annoying part was when they would say "Here go buy yourself an ice cream" and I actually wanted potato chips or something else. It never occured to me that I didn`t have to buy exactly what they told me to.

My dad used to always tell me that all roads lead to Vernon. So in 12th when my I had a test in my italian class I the question "it is typically said in italy that all roads lead to what?" i answered vernon. I obviously go the answer wrong.

When I was a kid, we would sometimes drive through a tunnel in town. Near the access lane was a big street light, consisting of many lights on a kind of upside down flying saucer. I had no real idea how far or how big this object was, but I thought it was actually a small town in the clouds. Obviously, there had to be a way to get there. So everytime we'd drive past this street light, I saw a small road nearby which I thought was the way to this mysterious city. So I'd always ask my dad if we could drive this road, and he'd tell me 'maybe one day'. I was puzzled by the fact I could not see the other end of the road entering into the city up in the air. But I accepted that fact: after all, I knew I was only a kid, and thus there had to be a few things I could not understand nor explain!

When I was 5 or 6, my family would frequently have hot dogs for dinner. I loved hot dogs, but I hated the outer "skin" of the hot dogs, so I would refuse to eat them until one of my parents peeled the skin off of them.

One day, my father told me that little boys who didn't eat the skins of their hot dogs would never grow up to be the president. I'm not sure I really wanted to be the president, but I was certainly offended by the idea, so I asked him how they would ever know I didn't eat my hot dog skin.

"The White House has cameras everywhere."

"Nuh uh."

"Yes they do." (pointing) "Look, there's one."

"Where?"

"You missed it. The president looks at the videos every evening and makes a list of who can't be the president because they didn't eat their hot dog skin. But if you start eating yours before you get too old, there's a good chance he'll take you off the list."

After that, I always ate the skin of my hot dogs.

When I was little I used to think that Hollywood was in Ohio. Growing up in Michigan, I always used to bug my mom to take me to Hollywood and I couldn't understand why she kept saying no.

In 5th grade, the first time I took a standardized test, I didn't know what box to fill in for nationality, so I crossed out everything, and underneath, I wrote, "Peach".

As a kid, I could not understand why the cashiers in supermarkets would give change to you when you'd pay. The only explanation I could figure out was: you're to pay $100, and you only have $90 in your pocket, so the cashier gives you the missing $10. But I thought this was weird, though, because any dishonest person would just pretend having only $20 in order to get $80.

The one day my sister said she was going to Washington DC for a field trip at school, and I wondered how she was there for a day, because I used to think Washington DC was the state of Washington (I live in Pennsylvania). I was so confused by it, and I believed that from the time I was 8.

i can remember my parents saying they were thinking of moving house and asking me where i wanted to live. i said i didnt mind as long as it wasn't earnest. baffled by this answer they asked me why. so i told them that lots of people get murdered there and i would be too scared to sleep. they still didn't understand so i explained how on the news murder enquiries always begin in earnest!

i remember standing in the playground when i was about 6 and i could smell daffodil and for about 2 years i thought the world was a giant daffodil.bit random but i was only 6 lol!

I went to Italy with my parents for the first time when I was three years old. It took so long to fly there - nine hours - that I was convinced it was on another planet.

There is a town in British Columbia called 100 Mile House. When I was a kid my father told me that it wasn't a town, it was actually a house that was one hundred miles long. I envisioned this gigantic log house building until I was about eleven years old.

As a child I first heard about Americans going to Mexico and getting "Montezuma's revenge" from drinking the water. And then somewhat later I heard how it doesn't effect the Mexicans who live there. I later learned that that is because the develop a resistence to the germs in the water. But for a long time I thought that Mexicans don't poop and that's why they can't get "Montezuma's revenge" like Americans can from drinking the water there.