My dad once told me that scaffolding outside a building was erected to keep burglars out. I believed this for an extraordinarily long time and I still kinda think it's logical somehow.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that scaffolding was used to support buildings when they were having work on them.Anon
- I believed that burglars ate soap & lipstick— Karen
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I used to believe that when I said my prayers, "God Bless..." meant please keep burglars awayAnon
- I used to beleieve (when VERY young; 12 actually!) that cat burglars stole cats!— Woody
- I used to believe that switching the light on and off was morse code to burglarsAnon