I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.Anon
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart