places
Show most recent or highest rated first. Common beliefs in this section include:page 65 of 65
< 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
I used to think that Scotland Yard was just a yard in Scotland and couldn't work out why it was on the news all the time.....
Louise
My parents told me that if I dug straight downwards, I would get to Australia - so that's what i tried to do.
Nick
That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.
Christophe Chang
The world was really much smaller than I was being led to believe. In fact my suspicion was that my dad would drive us to my Grandad's house by the most circuitous route possible to give me the impression that it was much further away than it really was. I believed that Britain was probably only about 20 square miles. Worst of all I believed that my dad had told everyone else what he was up to. All just to make me suffer on long boring car journeys - it was so cruel. I was an only child.
Anon
top belief!
My son David thought that Trafalgar Square would be full of chickens. He also thought that any place underground was part of London. (What had I been telling him??)
Colin
top belief!
Inexplicably, I genuinely believed that if you drove to the end of Holloway Road, you'd eventually arrive at the moon.
James
top belief!
I grew up in London and remember seeing lots of cranes and building sites in the city (as there still are). I used to think that one day, London would be completed, and that then all the builders would pack up and go home.
James
top belief!
A friend told me (and I didn't totally disbelieve him either) that when you go in an aeroplane on holiday, the plane just flies around and around in the sky, while the people on the ground change the scenery and the temperature. The more complicated the change, the longer you stayed in the sky (which is why places like Japan take so long to get to). Then, when the people on the ground were finished, you would land back at the same place, but never know the difference!
Sharon
top belief!
I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".
Alex
top belief!
When I was 6 I went to an exhibition with my friend Nicholas and we saw a map on the wall and neither of us could read all of the words, and for years after I thought Egypt was pronounced Eggyput.
Debs
I Used To Believe™ © 2002 - 2024 Mat Connolley, another Iteracy website. privacy policy