As a child, my mother lived near railroad tracks. She and her siblings would throw pebbles at the passing trains, trying to hit them. One time my mom was the only successful kid, and watched the train continue on it's way. Well, for some reason the train derailed on the corner down the tracks, spilling it's load of nickels everywhere. For years my mom believed she knocked that train over with her pebble.
A childhood belief about trains
others believed things like this
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen