During college, my girlfriend at the time was driving me around her hometown in New Jersey. We came to a fenced area surrounding an AT&T building. There were telephone poles of varying heights stuck in the ground and they were covered with what appeared to be varying types of oil or other protectant. "That's where they grow telephone poles", she said. I burst out laughing, thinking she had made a very funny joke.
"Why are you laughing, " she said straightfaced.
Turns out her father told her this fib as a little girl - and to that day she still believed it!
A childhood belief about places
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
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- 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