When I was 5 I believed that large birds would grab you with their talons and fly off like in the cartoons, so whenever I was outside and saw one I would grab onto something. I was somehow convinced that the birds were actually bigger than me.

dan b

I remember going to see the house my family was moving into. As I was sitting in the car on the way to the house, I started thinking about people moving and for sale signs and the like. I asked where the other people went who were in the house before us, and my parents told me they had moved to a new house too. I didn't know much about money at the time, so logically I concluded that people trade houses.

I could see the full coordination as one family talked to another and arranged what home to go to, and would all move on the same day into thier new place.

sampa

I never wanted to go down a street that was a Dead End. I was certain that there were a bunch of dead people back there waiting for me.

Jill

I used to believe that when people moved, a big bulldozer would physically move their house to a new neighborhood.

Daniel Chang

When i was little i used t believe that when you would sell you're house to some one you had to move in to their house and they had to move into yours.

amanda

I used to think that there were the exact same number of houses in the world as there were families, therefore if you wanted to move house you had to wait for another family who wanted to move on the same day, and you would both swap houses!

Vikki

I used to believe there was a tunnel running lengthways underneath the road, along which a man ran along at night switching the ‘cat’s eyes’ on and off.

Louis

My girlfriend and I used to believe, that if u didn't jump off the escalator 6 feet before the end you would be sucked up.

Anon

I used to think that when you put a letter into a postbox that there was a huge conveyer belt underneath that took it to your door during the night. I thought tis because my dad told me when I was 5

London Bob

I once told my enquiring 5 year old that the birds switched on the street lights as it became dark by pecking the little knobs on the top of them. It wasn't until she was 12 years old (!)that she even considered what I'd said when she asked.... 'how do the birds know when to turn the lights off?'!!! As she said the words she, for the first time, realised how silly it sounded, and what a wonderful 7 years of magic she had quite happily accepted as fact and been believing in all this time.

Kay (Shropshire)

I used to bellieve that allotments were where you grew sheds.

Hannah

when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"

Brid

Anyone else think that Emergency Exits were special exits for some celebrity called 'Emer Gency' to use?

Mark Yardley

When I was in first grade, I believed that each family had their own unique zip code, which was used as a means of identification. So when we learned how address envelopes in school one day, I was shocked and angry to discover that the teacher had put MY zip code up on the board for everyone else to use! I immediately raised my hand and stated, 'But that's MY zip code! You can't use it!' My teacher had to explain to me that everyone within the surrounding area got to use the same zip code. Hrmph. I still thought I should be the only one allowed to use it.

jme

I used to believe that midgets were just really smart babies

Nightmare

I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.

Anon

I used to believe that when the local Denny's Diner said, "Open 24 Hours" that meant that the waiters all lived at Denny's, without a day off, and only saw family when the family came to Denny's to eat.

Jeanine Miller

Because I grew up with the cartoon "Transformers," I always thought that, when it stormed, the transformer box behind my house would turn into a huge monster machine. I would keep an eye on it, peeking timidly out the back window.

Elizabeth

Up until I was 17 I thought that 'no outlet' signs meant that the steet didn't have any streetlights.

Kelsey

when I was in elementary school, believed that while I was in a crosswalk, I was protected from being hit by a car. I used to walk right out on to the street. I'm lucky to be alive I think.

Sylvia