When telephone lines were first strung across the landscape of Iowa, my mother believed that the wonderously tall poles had been manufactured from hundreds of small sticks of wood. When she was grown and moved to the Pacific Northwest, she was amazed to learn that there were trees so tall you could make a telephone pole from just one.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- I used to believe that eating vegetables would make me particularly tall— Aleksandr