the world: places

when I ws about 5 I believed that every place in the world was in the united states. And I also beleived that translvannia and pennslvannia were the in the same place. Then my dad got me a globe for Christmas.

I live in Washington D.C. One time my mother had to go to Boston for a business trip. Because I was 5, I thought that was somewhere near Wyoming. I asked her if they all wore cowboy hats in Boston.

I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.

I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada.

I thought the "Continental United States" referred to states only attached to the continent of North America, and that all islands, like Hawaii, belonged to no continent. Until I was 16.

When I was younger, I was gonna go to Mexico for the summer, but I was so confused, cuz I had bought color clothes, but I thought Mexico was black and white!

I used to believe that Mexico and my family was in the sky, because we had to take a plane to visit them.

I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"

When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state.

For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D

I used to think Romania and Transylvania were one and the same. All of Romania was apparently Transylvania, and they had a booming movie industry. I thought it was the same country that went by two different names.

I used to think that the initials NYC stood for "nobody you're calling"

I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-land

When I was younger, I believed that the evening news was all make believe. There really weren't places called Iran, Russia, China, England. I thought it was the US government trying to scare Americans so that we would let them do what they wanted to. Go figure, I'm a politician now!!!

My little brother thought that if you flew up into the sky and looked down on the earth you'd see the names of states and cities, etc. written like on a map.

I used to believe that the state of nebraska was just and urban myth. It had never occured to me at all why anyone would want to live there. I thought it was a HUGE government conspiracy, and I was the only one who knew the truth. I used to secretly black it out with my pen whenever I saw the darn thing on a map. and when people would ask me what the heck I was doing I would say something like - You dont know what your saying! You like to eat shoe-laces! Thats why you dont have any!- and then when they looked down at their feet I would run away.