places

When I was a child there was this certain filed where we would always go for a picnic on Easter. So I got the idea that that place WAS Easter, rather than Easter being a day.

Bobby

I grew up in southern long island, New York, and went to the beach a lot. The horizon of one particular beach I went to a lot had a bit of land in the far distance. I knew that England was across the ocean, and I assumed that land in the distance was england. When i was 4, i almost drowned trying to swim there ( i wanted to meet the Queen so badly!). My brother saved me and crushed my beliefs by telling me the land was not england; it was staten island and queens. go figure.

JC

When I was 6 or 7, my dad was temporarily relocated to Austin, Texas. (We lived in Dallas at the time.) He would commute back and forth on weekends, but one day, my mom, brother and I actually drove down to with him to spend the week. I was so excited to be going--I had never been "out of town" in my memory--so I was repeatedly asking my dad, "Daddy, what's Austin like?" He couldn't communicate to me that it was just another city, and I was relentless in my asking. So, to give me a ridiculous answer that I would laugh at and maybe give up on asking him, he told me, "In Austin, there are lots of wild animals. And everyone eats nothing but breakfast cereal." I was shocked. "Really?" I asked. He thought it was so funny that I actually believed him that he told me all about it, and how everyone's favorite meal is a really cool breakfast cereal thing called fruit soup. When we passed a deer crossing sign, I knew that had to mean that it was true: there WERE wild animals in Austin. I was so disappointed when we got there and there were no wild animals and we ate plain old hamburgers!

Kootie

I used to believe that Houston was a place where if you went, you would never be able to return. Kind of like Hotel California or some similarly scary place where they pretend to be nice and never let you leave. My dad used to go there a lot of business trips, and I have a distinct memory of finding out one day that he was packed to go to HOUSTON, and I was so horrified that I blocked our front door and refused to let him go. This wasn't a matter of separation anxiety, it was a matter of personal security! I think I made him late for his flight... I don't know where I got this idea, I could have sworn one of my parents told me, but now that I think about it, it really doesn't make sense that they would, does it?

K

When I was little, my friends and I would make the expedition to "dig to China" atleast twice a year. It was not until my pre-teen years(or maybe older) that I made the Geographical connection that China was on the otherside of the planet. Did you know that? Anyways, my understanding of China was a place deep, deep, deep under the ground that contained treasures and mainly...."china"....you know the kind your grandmother has on her wall that is taken down for special dinners. I really believed that I was going to be the one to find it.

John-Paul Venuto

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.

viki

I used to (up until the age of about 10) believe that there was a place called Random. I thought that it was a place in London, used to pick winners of competitions!

Anon

When I was little, I thought Transylvania was Pennsylvania and all the vampires and other monsters lived there.

Still doesn't want to travel out East

up until last week i always thought swindon was near sweeden or switzerland, until everyone laughed and said its actually not very far away from where i live! CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE (im 18)

Anon

I live in Oklahoma, and I used to believe that Kansas or anything else that was above (north) Oklahoma on a map was wayyyy way far up in the sky. It took awhile for me to get that north wasnt straight up.

Kate

I used to believe that Disney World was in the clouds.. because you always had to fly to get there..

alskdf

When my mom was little her map of the U.S. had our state (Ohio) green and the other states were a variety of other colors. My mother then believed that the grass in other states was the color on the map. She wouldn't believe my grandma that they were in Michigan because the grass wasn't purple.

Courtney

For some reason when I was a kid I figured since the White House was so big they couldn't paint it by hand so when they had to repaint it I thought they would have these 4 helicopters with chains carry this HUGE tub of white paint and then dump it out right on top of the White House!

Ugh-Zan III

When I was younger my friend told me that in Ireland instead of having 3-leaf clover patches they had 4-leaf clover patches and that finding a 3-leaf clover over there was lucky. We devised a plan to sell our 3-leafed clover over there to make money! I actually still believed this till a few months ago when I put some thought in to it ...I'm in Collge

Brigit

I used to think that gunpoint was a place as well. I also used to think that the Everglades was a place that smelled really good because it had the word "Glade" in it

Anon

I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.

Pencil-vania

When I was a child I used to believe
that everything that wasn't China, didn't exist.Because when I was a child I thought that all the world is
China.

None name

I thought that in order to get to Canada, you had to go through Maine, since Maine was the northernmost state on the East Coast.

IMMarkotron

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

Elin Norway

When I was really young I used to think that when someone said "the winner will be chosen at random" that Random was a place!

Paul