Whenever I was to get new sneekers, I had to try them our how fast they were. I ran atleast one lap around the store for every sneeker and decided from there. Of course, the ones with a puma or the ones with many stripes usualy won.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- My neighbors used to believe you could never count to 100 in a day, it would atleast take a week.
— raceystacyUS - I used to believe that zebras have detachable stripes.Anon
- ... i used to believe the more stripes my pair of sneakers had, the faster i would run ...— wilbur
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- I thought that the stripes of the zebra crossings was from a squashed zebra— Helen
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf