My siblings and I had a strange set of rituals for everytime we came to a bridge while riding in the car. We would duck our heads if we went under a bridge because otherwise it would "suck up our hair" and lift our feet going over a bridge so it wouldn't suck off our toes. I was 10 before I figured out my older brothers were just playing a game and nothing was really going to happen, and it was years before I didn't feel a tingle of fear for my hair when going under bridges.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- I used to believe that George Washington died and turned into a bridge.— lara dean
- I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington— Shayne
- I used to belive that if I didn't duck when going under bridges they would hit me.Anon
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_