places

we lived in a small town. whenever we would go shopping or go see a movie we would drive to a bigger town, lexington. when i was little i used to think that every state had a lexington and that this place was the hub of all cool things. like lexington was a mall or something that spanned miles and miles with restaurants and shoe stores.

shasta, ky

When I was a kid I really thought there was a Sesame Street. I kept asking my mom & dad if I could go too sesame street and see big bird.

Karen

When I was a child, I used to think that separating Quebec from Canada involved actual physical separation. Needless to say, I was puzzled as to how this would be accomplished. I thought someone would actually saw along the borders.

Nicolas

As a kid growing up in the Jersey suburbs, I thought that because New York and Newark had similar sounding names, they must be in the opposite direction from each other.

A. Falk, NYC

When I was about 5 years, I was fond of a movie about a city called BOMBAY, the movie was a black & white print.

Next year, I went to the place with my uncle, and upon looking outside from train I said, "Uncle, this city is not BOMBAY, I know, BOMBAY is black & white, I have seen it in a movie."

I used to believe BOMBAY is famous because its blank & white.

Viral Patel

when I was about 7, I saw a picture of the Great Wall of China taken from a satelite so that the whole wall could be seen.... When my mom pointed it out and asked if I knew what it was I rsponded "waterslide, big deal"

melissa flanagan

I remember this magical place where the only thing that occurred was choosing winners in contests that you could enter. The contests were usually in promotion of some favorite kids' food like cereal. The name of the place was RANDOM. As in: the winner will be chosen at random. I never could find it on a map.

Kevin Clearwater

when i was younger when my parents were going out and if i wasnt coming they would say they were going to a place called uppanickinrussia(pronouced up-an-nick-in-rush-a) for years i believed there was such a place untill one day when i was in the car with mum and she said we were headed there.! was soo excited untill we pulled up at a bathroom tile shop.Disappiontment plus

alanah

I used to think that every street in my town ran all the way across the world. When I went to other towns I saw other Maple Streets and State Streets, so I figured they just sort of kept going. I always used to wonder if the Japanese had "Maple St." printed on their signs or if it was translated into Japanese.

Lynn Hinderks

I used to think Pennsylvania was the United States capitol.
(Well the white house is on Pennsylvania Ave or something, isn't it? I guess that was one of the moments I was dazing out during class...)

Carrie

When I was four or five, I used to hear people talk about the BIG C. They meant the concrete letter C in the Berkeley Hills, (for the University of California) but, because we lived near the bay and several miles away, the hills looked bluish to me, and I thought they were part of the Big Sea.

Scottie

As you cross the Oakland-Bay Bridge at San Francisco, Calif., about midway there was an exit for a military base on an artificial island named Treasure Island. As a kid, I was always disappointed when we passed the exit for Treasure Island. I imagined something out of the book by Robert Louis Stevenson; sunny beaches, tropical plants everywhere (in the middle of the San Francisco Bay; ha!) and buried treasure just waiting to be dug up. Even when I asked to go to Treasure Island, my parents would't explain to me that it was just a base.

I mean, who in their right minds would pass that place up?

Peace Monkey

when my mother uised to refer to 'all n'sundry' I thought that Sundry was a country and that we were talking about all in Sundry. I was quite worried to hear about 'all in Sundry' knowing our business

Kerray

I am from Norway, and when I was younger I didn't know the difference beetween the capital in Norway (Oslo) and our neighborcountry Sweden. So - I thougth that I had been abroad if I had been in Oslo ...

Tone

The World - as a kid i never believed that Ancient Rome was actually in the same country as Rome is today, this went on till i was, hh, hm.. 18 !!

Ian London

Back when I first started school we were taught to remember directions: north was my head, south my feet, east my right hand, and west my left hand. So, to get to Alaska I would have to go straight up into the sky. Now I use a compass.

A gullible little kid!

I used to believe that, because my mum told me that the world was eternal (as in circle, didn't understand that though), that the world really was eternal and that i could never visit every country in the world. So when I asked my mum if I could visit every country in the world, I was very surprised when she said yes!

KM

When I was a kid i belived that that the country i lived in, Norway, covered the entire world, and that all the other countries like England, USA, China and so on was a planet of there own (usa=mars, England=Jupiter and so on)

TPC

I just to think that Norway was the capital of the world

Elin Norway