When I was about 5 I used to beleive the cracks in the sidewalks were cuts, so I would put all the bandaids I could find on them so they could heal.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe, the little round bandaids, were to cover bullett holes.Anon
- I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.— Miss Naive
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I used to believe that if your arm got cut off it would heal/grow back.Anon
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina