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When i was young, i used to think that the borders of countries were actually thick concrete fences with barbed wire on top the stretched high into the sky. They would be guarded by men with guns and any thing or anyone entering or exiting, even planes!, had to be run by them and they would decide whether to open the gate for you.

Michael

I used to believe the end of the road where my Grandma lived was the end of the world. It was a dead-end and disappeared into sand dunes and stunted bushes adjacent to the sea; at night in bed I fancied I could hear the wailing of unfortunates who ventured there. It`s all built up now, of course, but I still have an uneasy feeling .....!!!!

Michelle

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

Pandy

When my family went to visit my Father's side of the family in Ireland from Canada I was expecting things to be so much different that the air would be a different colour (I was envisioning pink) and was surprised and disappointed that most things (including the air) were much the same.

Paddy Silverstein

I grew up in a small (pop. 369) village in central Illinois. My parents and I often took Sunday rides in the country. Every once in awhile my dad would say, "Today we'll go to Podunk; if we can find it." We never did find Podunck because Podunk did not exist (kinda like Kilroy). Dad said he had two friends who lived there; John Harvey D. C. V. Morecroppy and The Haythackers. Well, once in a while I still look for Podunk, and one day I think I saw the water tower!

Alan R. Swearingen

I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington

Shayne

I used to believe that you had to get dressed up to go to a casino in Las Vegas.

clevelandphil

When we were kids, my mom and I convinced my cousin that the birds in the Tiki Room at Disneyland were actually real instead of mechanical.

Dawnatello

I used to be very concerned about the CN Tower in Toronto. I was quite worried that it would fall one day, and even more worried that when it did snap off at the base and topple over, it was SO tall that the top could land right on me, in my backyard, 7 kilometers away.

Tikifish

When I was little in the 70's the issue of Quebec Separatism was big in the news. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how all those french people were going to physically separate their province from the rest of canada. Then I figured they were probably all just going to move to France. Much easier!

Tikifish

my mother used to tell me that in new york city, it was against the law to look up at the buildings. she told me this because she didn't want me bumping into people, but i believed it for the longest time, and to this day i regret not having looked up at the twin towers more often.

Anon

I used to believe that all the roads of the same name were part of the same road. So if you stayed on Main St. in one city you would eventually continue onto Main St in the next city, and the next one and the next one and so on.

Jonah

That the city of Christchurch was a big church which everybody lived in.

Christine

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".

Wayne Zeller

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. 

Rocketeer