When you walked up the high street you had an invisible piece of string behind you & you had to walk back home the right way so it did not get entangled up between lamp posts
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard
- I used to think the moon followed me when I walked home in 2014.— Cookies
- Well I once believed that when someone was home alone, they'd walk around naked..Anon