Everyday when riding the bus I would wonder how many miles we had to travel. I asked my mom to explain this to me, she said that a mile was a measure of distance. So I said ok and went on with that. Later on I thought that a mile was the distance between 2 road signs.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.Anon
- I used to see "End Road Work" signs, and thought they were a sort of protest.— Sebastian
- I used to beleive that road signs grew out of the ground.— Tiana
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie