i used to believe that when you stood on the side of the road and put up your thumb, you were trying to stop traffic to cross the road.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.
— LoonaSM's - When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- 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