When I was kid visiting at a friends house with my Parents, and it got late, they would say, well we have to hit the road now, and I thought they were getting ready to go out and slap the pavement.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I believed that if I ate Ready Brek, I'd glow like in the TV ad. — Why Aren't I Glowing?
- I used to believe that after eating Ready Brek I would glow, but that only adults could see it.— michelle
- When I was a child I used to believe that cows gave ready butter.— Bane