In the town where I lived there were freeway exits named after states "Pennsylvania" "Virginia". I used to believe that when you got to that exit you were in that state.
A childhood belief about road signs
others believed things like this
- Anyone else think that Emergency Exits were special exits for some celebrity called 'Emer Gency' to use?— Mark Yardley
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor