if your feet are on the ground when a train goes by you get "the lurgy"
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- 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 if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL