the world: places

I thought that Florida wasn't connected to the United States, like Hawaii. I never caught on that people drove there in their cars and when I did I just suspected that there was a really long bridge. I found out a couple of months ago that it is connected and I'm almost 15.

I thought that PB (pacific beach) in San Diego stood for peanut butter. I sure wondered why the banners advertising peanut butter everywhere had fish on them...

I grew up on the Georgia coast and whenever my family took me to the beach I thought if you looked really hard for long enough, you could see Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. I knew the world was round and not flat but still thought it was close enough to see across the ocean.

My Dad told us that Bodmin Beacon (a granite war memorial in Cornwall) was Cornwall's "Coal-fired space rocket", and that it just never got off the ground. We believed him.

When I was small my mom went to Vegas all the time. I thought it was the city made out of gold in the sky, because I would see the plan take off and not land. :)

I thought that Armagh and Baghdad were next to each other because the names went together ('Our Ma' and , em, 'Bag Dad').

When I was about 10 (not sure how old exactly), I heard that I was moving to Pennsylvania. With a feeling of shock and horror, I replied with, "Isn't that where Dracula lives?" Of course my folks got a big kick out of this and said yes, refusing to replace PENNsylvaina with TRANsylvania.

When I was a real little kid I thought that the modern-day American west was as it was portrayed in westerns. As an older kid I saw a movie in which in English kid believed this. I thought, "how stupid this kid is" until it jogged my memory about my own belief as a little kid. 

I used to believe that "left" and "right" were cardinal directions like "East" and "West." I would point with my left had and ask my mother if that was left or right. She'd tell me left. I'd then turn 180 degrees and point in the same direction with my right hand, and thought she must be lying when she told me that it was now "right".

My younger sister believed until she was 15 that New England was in England... which I'm sure confused her when I refered to friends in New Jeresy and in New England in the same breath. lol

When I was quite young I got really interested in studying my dad's Atlas. I thought that the British Isles were Australia & New Zeland because they were the shape of a kangaroo and a koala bear.

My dad used to tell me that there was always, (come rain or shine) a loan piper standing at Scotch Corner. And he'd played the pipes to tell you you'd got as far as Scotland. And this was true because my dad said so!

i live probably 15 miles away from antietam battlefield (where one of the bloodiest battles of the american civil war ocurred) i can remember going on a field trip there when i was about 4. they told us about Bloody Lane. I was really scared to go there. I thought there would actually be blood everywhere...but confused and somewhat disappointed to find that it was now a bloodless paved walkway.

I used to believe that if I put my finger on a map on the city I was in I could see my finger out the window!

i used to believe that when the sun went down, it actually went down into the earth over in japan, and that's why it was called the land of the rising sun

When very young, I believed that Great Britain must be the largest country in the world, because it was actually made up of fours different countries.