the world: places

When I was maybe 4 or 5 the family would be watching the Jackie Gleason show on tv. I remember him saying during the intro "Here we are in Beauuutiful Miami" I kept thinking, well where is his beautiful MAMMY he keeps talking about??

I tried to dig to China in my backyard, but after a while I realized that was impossible. So I thought it would be a more realistic goal to dig to Canada instead...

I got confused as a kid about Neverland. I knew Peter Pan came from there, and therefore it didnt exist, but then I was shown a spot-the-mistake map, with Netherlands on it, and I was convinced they'd just made a typo and that was the mistake ...

I used to think there were two Canadas and two Russias because on the map it shows Canada and Russia twice because they couldn't fit it all in one place on the map.

i used to beleive that the city "amseterdam" in denmark i think, was really called "hamsterdam" and it was infested with hamsters, running all over the streets, and in peoples houses and stuff. When my dad came back from a bussness trip from there i was really mad at him for a week, because he hadnt brought me back a hamster, it wasnt untill he asked me what was wrong, that he told me i was wrong lol.

well this is kind of embarassing. i live in texas and i have heard that that everythings bigger in texas and texas woman have big hair (i used alot of hair spray at age four)
i thought women in texas,especially cow girls,were sopposed to have big hair.well one time i was at the grocery store with my mom. we were geting our film back and i was siting on the counter while my mom was talking to the lady.i asked the lady if she was from texas and when she said yes i got mad. she didn't have big hair.well....i stood up on the counter yelled "but you dont have BIG hair!!! you have to!!!" an i smaked the lady on the head. my mom turned bright red yanked me of of the counter an left the store with out our film and groceries

i would always confuse canada with canberra (an australian city) and poland with portugal

As a child, I once had a conversation with a friend of mine who told me that he and his family were moving to LA. I nodded and pretended to know what he was talking about. It wasn't until years later that I came to realize that LA and Los Angeles were the same thing. I used to think LA was spelled Ellay, a different city and not an acronym for Los Angeles.

My grandparents on both sides came to Australia with their families from Britain in the 1920s, as did many of their friends and, like many Australians, still referred to Britain as "home". This was very confusing to me as a child, trying to imagine a house so huge as to have so many people in it. Then one day I saw a picture of Buckingham Palace - ah! - that explained it! I had a rather grandiose idea of my family origins for years afterwards.

My father, trying to explain maps to me, aged six, showed me Australia and said,"That's where we live". It didn't look much like our house, but adults have funny ways of representing things. But I thought I had it all worked out, and triumphantly said, "And that's where Leonie lives!", pointing to New Guinea, just to the north (Leonie was my friend who lived across the road). Dad patiently explained that it was New Guinea, but I knew that we had lived in New Guinea when I was smaller, and that I had never lived in Leonie's house, so put the whole conversation down to overactive adult imagination.

I believed this for a long time (longer than I'd care to admit!): I knew that midgets were referred to as "little people" and for years I thought that Reno was a big city of little people because it is known as "the biggest little city on earth".

i also used 2 think that on maps of the world etc if i sqinted really, really hard i could see my street, my house-everything!
so i tried it one day. i was bitterly dissapointed when i cuoldent see my house.
i decided i needed glasses so i pinched my sisters
:(

I used to belive that New York City was in California untill I was About 10 when I asked my mom where New York City was and she told me it was in New York after that I felt Realy Dumb

i used to believe (until a day ago) that amsterdam was a country...
and that banga university is in india

My sister told me once that when the new years eve ball dropped in NYC, that it actually dropped and broke opena nd that little totsie rolls flew out and all the people ran to get them. It was only when I was fianally old enough to stay up and see the ball drop, and i sw that they were lowering it slowly, and then when it got to the bottom, no tootsie rolls came out, i started crying.

I grew up in southern North Carolina, about as close as one can get in North Carolina to the towns of Camden and Florence in South Carolina. Long before I'd ever been to Camden or Florence or places in between, I had recurrent dreams about traveling from Camden to Florence and in my deams, the route between the two always passed among large mountains. By the time I actually travelled from Camden to Florence, I had learned enough to not really expect substantial mountains, but still I was somewhat disappointed at how totally flat that area turned out to be. Since then, I've learned to take some solace in the fact that somewhere north of there, between the route from Camden to Florence and the North Carolina line, there are some interesting rocky areas, hills, and even a small "mountain", including Forty Acre Rock, the Sandhills, and Sugarloaf Mountain.