What were some misconceptions you had about the world when you were a child?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The biggest misconception I remember from my childhood is that you can hit a golf ball farther with a 9 iron than a 2 iron because it has the bigger number.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

- God can be bargained with in conversation or in prayer.
- God will make me to suffer eternally in Hell for not being unquestioningly obedient.

I presume those two were not held at the same time.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I also once thought that honesty was a prerequisite to becoming a president (after hearing about George Washington and the cherry tree).

Which makes me wonder why things are said to be as American as apple pie rather than as cherry pie.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Which makes me wonder why things are said to be as American as apple pie rather than as cherry pie.

Clearly, you have never talked to this guy:

Never saw any of those films, but I was under the impression they were in favor of cream pie.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I was reminded this by watching a CPG Grey video.

Its typical for Americans to say the word "Mississippi" between digits to approximate counting by seconds.  Since I grew up in Mississippi, I just always assumed that only people who lived in Mississippi said "Mississippi" while counting seconds and that people in other states used whichever state they were in order to do the same (i.e., "One Alabama, two Alabama; One Massachusetts, two Massachusetts). 

That might be a fun system - "One Chad, two Chad, three Chad", etc.

That system could leave one hanging.