I used to think that new shoes had special powers to make you run faster. I remember going to a family reunion at a park with lots of hills. And I had a brand new pair of shoes. I would run down the hills racing my cousins and was so proud of how fast my new shoes would make me go.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- i use to beleive that horseraddish came from horses shoesAnon
- I used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly
- When I was a child I used to be afraid of clowns because they used to have very big shoes— LIZA