I used to believe that houses walked about at night. When you were asleep your houses walked about and talked to other houses. This is why I thought they had to put nails in floorboards to stop them walking about. I still believe this and I'm now 42.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- when I was 8 or9 I thought that you could only move to 3 houses or then you would get in big truble!!!— 3 houses
- I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.Anon
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- As a kid, I thought "No Outlet" signs meant the houses past that point didn't have any electrical outlets.— Julie
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington