When I was about ten I read a book called 'Slipt', and in one part a school bus gets hit by a train and all the kids get killed. From that point on I would only ride next to the emergency exits on school buses so I could get away if I saw a train coming.
A childhood belief about buses

others believed things like this
- Anyone else think that Emergency Exits were special exits for some celebrity called 'Emer Gency' to use?— Mark Yardley
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha