in the street

i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and live

Anon

When I was 5 my 7-year-old next door neighbor told me the UPS man stole kids and we should all hide so he wouldn't take us. For YEARS I hid from UPS trucks!

Anat

After being fixated with Thomas the Tank Engine and how the streets lights turned on I finally came to a logical conclusion. I believed that the fat controller lives inside the lamp post on a little chair and turned on the lights when it go dark.

Matt

Driving down the road one day, I pointed up at a giant crane at a construction site and asked my mom what it was for.
She must have thought I was looking at something else, because she mentioned something about it helping her lease the car.
For years I thought that cranes would go and pick cars out for you for a lease...

Anna

When I was little we used to get those big bags of ice. So one day when i was just learning to read we went to go get some ice and we passed an office so I looked at my mom and told not to go there because they are "off ice".

ib was sooo stupid

i used to think that an ambulance waz a truck with a bed in it. And u'd sleep in dere if dere waz a monster under the bed.

megan

i used to believe that when you stepped on,
and crunched leaves you could control them.

wil

My brother used to think those yellow street signs with the wavy lines behind a car that indicated curves on the road ahead actually meant that there were snakes on the road ahead. If I recall correctly he was quite frightened by this.

TC

When I was 3 or 4, I used to be afraid of cows. One day I moved to a different town and there was a river behind the house. My mom was afraid that I'd go wander off to the river and fall in so in order to keep me away from the river, she told me that the cows had a house down there (an old dog house in the water)and that I couldn't go down there.

Anon

i use to believe there we small people in the street lights and turned on the lights at night

Chris

When I was little I believed that the steaming man holes we see in the city, was a direct access to hell. I wanted to go down and visit. #:D

Barbara

I used to think that the sign on the side of the road that said, "Stop Ahead" meant someone had their head in the road and you had to stop so you wouldn't run it over. My first day at school when the school bus picked me up at the bus stop...I started yelling "Stop! There's a head!" I couldn't understand why the bus driver didn't stop and then started laughing when I tried to explain why I had asked her to....

Jen Lanphear

When i was little, my mom used to tell me that if i got near the street drain the people eater would come out and get me. For years i was scared to death that the people eater would come out and get me.

Laura

I was at my friend Zala's (yes, that really is her name) house when I was little, and she was allowed to ride her bike in the street because it was a 'dead end'. I thought that meant you could take a gun and shoot the street and it would be dead.

River

When I was about 6 or 7, the owner of the neighboring farm was named "Ardell". I thought that he was "our dell", and that probably lots of people had their dells. I think this belief was related to the children's song "The farmer in the dell".

Anon

When I was little I thought that pedestrians were people from another country that got their own special crosswalks.

Emma

One day a long time ago, I asked my dad what those big towers with the flashing lights were there for (radio towers). He said they build them up and put the flashing lights on them to keep airplanes from running into them. He didn't tell me anything else, so I believed they were just there as an obstacle course for planes or something.

Josh Y.

When i was about 5 i thought that evil alian monkeys lived under the sidewalks. i would see if i could hear them talking about taking over the world.

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