When I was a kid, I used to believe that after I crossed a street, I had to hurry past a certain point on the sidewalk (like the next crack or a mailbox) before I heard a car pass behind me on the street, else the speeding car would chop off my foot at the ankle.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- When I was little I thought that the street lights went out after everyone went to bed.— supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- According to my mom, whenever I saw a stray dog in the street I would ask where its parents were. — Meg
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.Anon