Whenever I'd ride on a bus as a kid, and the bus driver would stop and open the door near railroad tracks (to listen for oncoming trains), I always thought that s/he was opening the door to let any homeless people near the tracks onto the bus.
Not that I'd ever *seen* homeless people near the train tracks. I'd only heard about them in stories. But that's why I imagined the bus driver was stopped.
A childhood belief about buses
others believed things like this
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower