For at least a couple of years when my folks told me that Christmas was "just around the corner", I knew which corner they were talking about. It was about five miles from out house. I always looked for Christmas weeks in advance whenever we went around that particular corner.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon