I used to think that when I stepped on one of those lawns with a sign on it (because it had been sprayed for bugs, but i didn't know), i'd be poisoned.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I made my bed everyday as a kid because I believed that if I didn't then bugs would get in it.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.— Dylan McDonald
- I used to think that Serial killers were people who poisoned cheerios.— Ashley
- if you got sprayed by a skunk you had to have a bath in tomarto sauce— rob
- when i was kid, i believed dynamite was something you sprayed on rocks and then they would dissapear— big googely