when i was in nursery school, my friend and i would spend hours on the playground talking about all the stuff we would buy if we had $100. i was going to buy a mansion
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I used to believe that if someone lived "overseas", it just meant that they lived by the ocean.
In my younger days, I used to believe that the equator was a big, long, barren hole in the ground that circled the entire world. The water even would dip for the equator!
In order to get to the lower hemisphere of the world, I thought people had to jump down into this ditch and run through the equator. If they stayed there too long, they would overheat!
I got this idea from stufying globes too intensely
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I used to think that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football player.
When i was about 5 or6 i saw the wizard of oz. I was convinced that the munchkins lived and worked in the atm machines at the bank.
When we went to the airport my mom was going to england but i thought that the air port was england so when we went to the airport i always said were in england!
While playing Trivial Pursuit, I discovered that my seven-year-old sister thought the Statue of Liberty carries a "stick with spikes on."
When I was little, I used to watch hockey games with my parents. When the announcer said He shoots, he scores! I thought he said Shootsky scores. I thought Shootsky was Wayne Gretzky. But for some reason I never wondered why he was on every team and scored all the goals. I also believed the Leafs could win a Stanley Cup. I still do... :(
I used to belive that dimes and diamonds where the same thing. So naturally it confused me when people would ask for diamonds as if they where very rare even though I had two in my pocket.
My cousin told me there was a button in London which only the Queen could press and it would blow up the world. I prayed for a very long time that the queen would not get angry!!
I grew up in Birmingham, England and became interested in the exotic animals of Africa such as lions, monkeys, giraffes, elephants and so on. As a child of 3 or 4 I had no concept of outside the city let alone other countries and continents. Being introduced to these creatures I had to somehow place them satisfactorily in my comprehension of the world. So I worked out that at the end of my street, the part that I was not allowed to play in, there must be a huge wall and on the other side of that wall was Africa and that was where all those exotic animals lived.
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i used to think that albinos were from Abania..
When i was little i thought the bank just gave u checks and that repced money. U got everything fro free, nobody would get ur money.
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I thought that a fruit machine (gambling machine) was where you actually bought fruit and the money you won was the change.
When I was little I heard on lots of T.V. shows that parents went backpacking through Europe before college. So I thought that Europe was this barren land with no countries or anything. Just mountains and forests and people hiked for thousands of miles. I always wondered why someone would want to do that. Now I wonder where I used to think all those European countries were...
when my mom said that i should look at china because they got starving people, i used to think seriously why couldnt we pack it up and send it to them.
I thought change was what the cashier gave you when you didn't have enough money to buy all the groceries you wanted.
Theres a city called Powell River around where I live. Whenever my family used to say we're going to Powell River with their British/Fijian accents it sounded like "Poweldriva" and to this day I still mistaken it and say that when my parents and family talk about it.
I love hockey, and when I was a kid my dad told me that the guy that drove the Zamboni machine in between periods (to clean the ice for those not familiar with hockey, it's a huge machine that gets the skate ruts out), anyway, my Dad told me that the guys name was Sam Bologna! Now, I passed on the tradition...I told my kids that his son took over, Sam Bologna, Jr.!!
Once I came home from school and my mom told me we had bombed Iraq. I wondered what she was talking about. After a few moments of thinking I asked her, "Were there people on the rock?".
I actually thought she had said "we bombed a rock". :P