I was told that petrol stations drew fuel from directly out of the ground. When the fuel ran out they had to close down.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to think Alsatian dogs were called 'Old Stations'.— Jen