A very young child i was convinced if you stepped on a crack in the footpath you would blow up!!! In fact it is probably my earliest memory....
The silly thing is that now at 25 i still dont step on cracks - just habit now i guess.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA