When I was five, I asked my mum how the street lamps came on on their own. My mum looked at me then she looked up at a lamp and said "You see those little knobs on the top of each one, well, as it's getting dark the birds come along and peck those knobs which are the light switches". I believed the seagulls turned on all street lamps until I was nearly twelve, when I asked "how do the birds know when to turn the lights off again?" As soon as I said it the penny dropped! She'll never let me forget it.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.Anon
- i believed that moles wore davy lamps on their heads so they could see underground— Omi
- I used to believe that there where little mice the the street lights that turned them on and off.Anon
- I used to think that lave lamps were the devil coming out of them trying to steel my soul. until i was like 10— Bianca
- I thought the dog poo in the street was human poo dropped from aeroplanesAnon
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah