when walking down a quiet road & a car came along - if I didn't reach the next lamppost before the car, then something terrible would happen. This continued into early adult life.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s
- I used to believe that jay walking was walking naked on the street. — Kendra
- I know my dog, Palmer, spoke English, he was just really quiet.
— Klayne P. - I used to believe that the more you talked, the sooner you would die. Needless to say, I was a quiet kid.— Lisa
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh