places

When I was little,when I looked at maps I thought places were really that close together.I always used to ask "Let's go to Washington,it's only a small walk away!"
Yes,I was that stupid.

Eh Steve!

When I was little I used to believe that the people in places south of the equator had to wear special shoes so they wouldn't fall off the face of the earth. And that people in Australia had the technology to jump up in the air, which was really falling or so I thought, and not fall off into space.

Anon

When I was very little, I couldn't understand how people living on the bottom of our round earth could stand. I thought if you went down there you would just drop head first into outer space.

Giselle

In the city where my grandmother lives, there is a tall building near the highway. Everytime we drove passed by it I thought it was the state of Texas (where my Aunt lived at the time) because it was called Donahue and my aunt went the Phil Donahue show, which was located in Texas. Wild, huh?

allegra

I used to not know the difference between "city" and "building." So when Mom and Dad said the city we lived in was San Jose, I pictured us all living in this giant skyscraper (really big, like city blocks wide and totally hollow)... I assumed that that was where we would go if there was some sort of big emergency... like a natural disaster or something. I had scary dreams about all of us having to leave our house and go live in San Jose (the giant skyscraper)

Pink

I used to believe that igloos never really existed, & that they were just silly made-up things used in cartoons. I guess the idea of living in a house made of ice was too unbelievable for me to handle...?

Daile

When I was 9 I believed the Des Moines was said "Dez Moanez".

Anon

When I was a child, many people jumped to their demise from the "G" Street bridge. When us kids would make Mom crazy, she would threaten to 'jump off the "G" Street bridge.
I was about 20 before I realized that not every town on earth had a "G" street bridge.

Annie

When I was a kid, I didn't believe that people actually lived in New Zealand. I have absolutely no idea what made me believe this, but I thought this up until I was about 10 or 11 years old. I thought it was completely inhabited by kiwi birds and uh....other native New Zealander creatures.

Daile

i used to believe if we dig very very deep we will be able to get to another places in the world.

renton

Where I live (near Detroit) there are several nearby streets with names like 9 Mile and 8 Mile. When I was younger I thought the names referred to how long the streets were - 9 Mile was 9 miles long, etc. I thought all streets were named like this!

anonymous

When i was just about able to read i came across a map of Scotland which included all the Lochs. "Loch" being the German word for "hole" I assumed that here must be a country there just full of holes. A bit like in Yellow Submarine I suppose.

Tim (Cologne)

When I was young growing up in America I watched the news with my parents a lot. One day I hered the reporter saing the they are having problems "overseas" and thought that there must have been a new 51st state called "overseas". A week after that I got a US map and counted fifty, i was extremely upset that the map makers riped me off and told my parents... yea. Now i can name every contry in the world and most of there capitals :)

patrick - new jersey, america

When I(from India) was in USA for an assignement(Software), I found that my Manager believed, everybody in India had Elephants just like people in US had Cars.She couldn't understand why we laughed for a looong time before we could explain her.

4-legged-sedan

i used to believe that 'overseas' was a country

anon

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!!!

Velma

When I was four, my aunt took us to Biloxi Beach in Mississippi. While swimming in the Gulf I kept wondering what was on the other side and decided it must be Greece. I think I got this because I watched an old spy movie a few nights before our trip and one of the female spies was Greek.

Guppy Girl

As a child in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK I couldn't quite understand why the capital of Poland was so near - I thought there was a geographical timewarp that confused Walsall with Warsaw!

Catherine

My sister had asked me how the Statue of Liberty got all the way from France to the U.S. Being the big sister I explained how 100 men swam it accross the ocean and were too tired to bring it on land and that is why it is in the NY harbor. Later that week she came home and hit me in the shoulder, hard! Apparently she believed it and shared it with the class. He he he! (20 years later she still belives my stories!)

Rachel