My Grandfather convinced me that there was a little man who lived under the road who turned the cats eyes on for us when we passed.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- When i was little i was so scared of cats, because i taught the turned in to tigers if you saw them.Anon
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.— Jim