When I was little my mom told me that the balls on electical lines were put there so that when there was a big flood the electrical lines would float. I believed this since the only time I had seen them was on electrical lines that were over a bridge.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to believe that the lines on roads were for motorcycles to drive on.— Downes
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I used to think that the lines outlining each of the states found on a US map were really there.— Anna
- when i was younger i used to believe that if i step on the lines of the tiles i would die — arouf gangsta
- I used to believe that fax machines and computers sent real sheets of paper through the lines.— H