We used to believe that if you saw an ambulance it was terrible bad luck and the only way to neutralise it was to hold your collar until you saw a four legged animal. Several times this made me late for school.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- My mom thought "ambulance" was "ambliance"— Molly
- I used to think that girls' anuses were green. I remember thinking that as late as high school.— Jack
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!— Bella
- i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."— ginny