My mom told me when I was about 5 that we were moving. For some reason I thought that meant that big strong men would come pick up the house and move it somewhere else. Before we ended up moving, I wondered how many men it would take to move our house, and where they would put it.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to think being on holiday meant that you were moving house temporarily, like with a change of address.Anon
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny