when we would go on long trips i would ask my mom how many more miles until we got there. she said "i don't know, they change the mile markers every once in awhile."
i believed her...
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- Washable markers could actually be washed off of paperAnon
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel
- I used to believe that if you got a splinter after awhile your whole body would turn into wood.Anon
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith