When I was a child, I misbehaved occasionally. My mom used to say that if I misbehaved again, the garbage collectors would come and take me away. Since their trucks were big and made that whooshing sound, you can understand why I was quite spooked.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- I used to believe that semi trucks were cement trucks, and that actual semis were just big trucks.— Joe Schmoe
- I had tinnitus as a child and used to believe that it was the sound that the devil made when he was closeby— Helen
- When I was young I thought the IRA was like the IRS and that Ireland was overrun by irate tax collectors.— jhager
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I used to think that the sound made from airplanes flying over me was the antenna scrapping across the sky.— Richard J Brown