places

when i was younger when my parents were going out and if i wasnt coming they would say they were going to a place called uppanickinrussia(pronouced up-an-nick-in-rush-a) for years i believed there was such a place untill one day when i was in the car with mum and she said we were headed there.! was soo excited untill we pulled up at a bathroom tile shop.Disappiontment plus

alanah

I used to think that every street in my town ran all the way across the world. When I went to other towns I saw other Maple Streets and State Streets, so I figured they just sort of kept going. I always used to wonder if the Japanese had "Maple St." printed on their signs or if it was translated into Japanese.

Lynn Hinderks

I used to think Pennsylvania was the United States capitol.
(Well the white house is on Pennsylvania Ave or something, isn't it? I guess that was one of the moments I was dazing out during class...)

Carrie

When I was four or five, I used to hear people talk about the BIG C. They meant the concrete letter C in the Berkeley Hills, (for the University of California) but, because we lived near the bay and several miles away, the hills looked bluish to me, and I thought they were part of the Big Sea.

Scottie

As you cross the Oakland-Bay Bridge at San Francisco, Calif., about midway there was an exit for a military base on an artificial island named Treasure Island. As a kid, I was always disappointed when we passed the exit for Treasure Island. I imagined something out of the book by Robert Louis Stevenson; sunny beaches, tropical plants everywhere (in the middle of the San Francisco Bay; ha!) and buried treasure just waiting to be dug up. Even when I asked to go to Treasure Island, my parents would't explain to me that it was just a base.

I mean, who in their right minds would pass that place up?

Peace Monkey

when my mother uised to refer to 'all n'sundry' I thought that Sundry was a country and that we were talking about all in Sundry. I was quite worried to hear about 'all in Sundry' knowing our business

Kerray

I am from Norway, and when I was younger I didn't know the difference beetween the capital in Norway (Oslo) and our neighborcountry Sweden. So - I thougth that I had been abroad if I had been in Oslo ...

Tone

The World - as a kid i never believed that Ancient Rome was actually in the same country as Rome is today, this went on till i was, hh, hm.. 18 !!

Ian London

Back when I first started school we were taught to remember directions: north was my head, south my feet, east my right hand, and west my left hand. So, to get to Alaska I would have to go straight up into the sky. Now I use a compass.

A gullible little kid!

I used to believe that, because my mum told me that the world was eternal (as in circle, didn't understand that though), that the world really was eternal and that i could never visit every country in the world. So when I asked my mum if I could visit every country in the world, I was very surprised when she said yes!

KM

When I was a kid i belived that that the country i lived in, Norway, covered the entire world, and that all the other countries like England, USA, China and so on was a planet of there own (usa=mars, England=Jupiter and so on)

TPC

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

Elin Norway

Iam from Norway,I used to believe that I could dig a tunnel from Norway to Chaina.And that I could "travel" thru the tunnel all the way to Chaina, but not "travel" back in the same tunnel.And maybe it would take years to dig a new one so I could go home.Scary!!!

Janne-Karin

My grandpa was from Florida. When he would come to visit he would stay in a hotel in our town. My little brother, Davey, thought that when we would visit him there that we were going to Florida where he lives.

Christina098

I live in Australia and when I was four I used to think New South Wales (the state where Sydney is situated) was actually in England.

Erin Jones

i used to believe that places that were North were up in the sky. So I never understood how we drove from Texas to Indiana without going into the sky!

Suzi

when I was little, my best friend thought that when people moved, they just switched houses with one another, so when our neigbours moved to denmark, he thougt the new ones came from denmark.

I also remember him telling me that his father had given birth to him, since he was a boy. Mothers only give birth to girls!

Galejenta

When I was little, I thought east/west was exactly the same as right/left, and if I turned around they would change places...

baka

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I had heard a tale of a swedish kid (called Emil, for those who know about him)that had put a sausage on top of a long stick, to trap some animal. On a high hill near the place I lived, there was an old, almost dead tree standing all alone, with just a few branches in the top. It was quite far away, and so it looked like a stick with something in the top. I, of course, thought it was the stick from the tale, with the sausage on top...

Tina