Shortly after reading "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel", my family traveled to New York City, where my brother explained that the steam pipes rising up from the pavement were from the steam shovels that had dug the skyscrapers, and had subsequently been paved over. I felt so sorry for all those poor, trapped steam shovels! He reassured me that they got out when there was road construction...
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that the steam rising from my food were ghosts. Anon
- i was scared to fart outside in cold weather because i thought u would be able to see the steam.— xJeNneSceNcEx
- I used to think the clouds were made of the steam that comes out of the factory smoke stacks.— TJ
- I used to believe that the "real" Santa Claus was at Macy's in New York City. All the rest were fakes. — Marcia
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon