places

When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name

zzo38

i used to think that there were 51 states and that the fifty first was Chicago, and its capital was buffalo.


sad to say some one told me there was 50 and that chicaog was a city, just recently

clueless american

These beliefs aren't mine, but of my friends. They are TERRIBLE at geography. They believe that New England is in Europe. They believe that South Africa is just a general region and not a country. Worst of all, they think there are 52 states in the US. Whenever I tell them that there are only 50, they tell me that I forgot Alaska and Hawaii. Their lack of knowledge of the states became apparent when one of my friends made a project which involved "taking a bridge from Florida to California." For the uninitiated: they're on different ends of the country. He didn't do so well on that project.

Mr. Globetrotter

I live in washington state, and I used to believe I lived near a holy place. I used to think bellingham, wa, was bethlaham (spelling)

Amanda

I used to believe that you could dig a hole or walk to China. I'd dig holes in my sandbox all the time, but I always got bored. Whenever I got mad at someone in my family, I'd say "well I'm running away to China!" and I'd walk probably 2 house lengths at the most and then get scared that Chinese people were gonna come and kidnap me and take me to China so I'd go home.

Brianne

I used to think that the sky had giant letters saying "Massachusetts" over that state like the map had it. Like, over the Atlantic Ocean had that written in the sky over it. *shakes head*

Kelly

When I was little I used to believe that in those ball play pit things at Chucky Cheese's there were big mice (like Chucky Cheese) but evil waiting to kill me...I didn't get in one until I was 9.

Also, when I was younger I used to believe that Turkey was the capitol of Kentucky...because Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was heartbroken when I discovered it was a country in Europe

Rochalle

Untill I was 7 or eight I had never seen a globe so I thought Alaska and Hawaii were right next to each other. One day I asked my teacher how come Alaska was so cold and hawaii was not. The next day she broght a globe in and showed me where alaska and hawaii really were.

Anon

I live in NY. Me and my older sister used to think that FL was right over the mountains seeing as you can't see whats over them. And now my younger cousin thinks that too.

Katie

'Names Chosen at Random'
I thought Random was 'a place' an actual location where all the games and lottery and etc were sent to be chosen!

Lind@

I used to hear on TV all the time about "paradise" and think it was the name of an actual island somewhere, that looked just like Hawaii or something.

Brandon Campbell

I am almost 16 and up until a week ago.. i believed that the united states of america was it's own continent in between north america and central america.... yea... i suck!!

Donna

When i was little i thought that people in like China or on the bottom of the globe would do every thing upside down like walk on the ceiling etc.

Dennis

When I was about 4-5, I used to believe that if I dug a deep enough hole in the sandbox, I would eventually end up above China, looking down at the chineese people from their heaven.

Mia

I remember asking my dad what state MichiganStateUniversity was in? Yes, I lived in Michigan but thought that when you went away to school you went out of state even if it was a state college!

Anon

When I was in kindergarten we were taking a family trip to Florida and my parents explained that we had to take an airplane. Naturally I assumed Florida was in the clouds and was trying to imagine what it would be like to walk in the clouds.

Shay