Up untill i was about 10 yrs old i used to think that cats eyes (those little reflective things in the middle of the road) were minature gas lamps and every night the old man that lived underneath the road would go along and light every single one individually with a giant match!!
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.— Gillian
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon