We lived in Fort Davis, Panama, when I was 4 yrs old. Mom commented, probably to a visiting neighbour, that "it's so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk!"
... It didn't work.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- The Kim Carnes song called 'Bette Davis Eyes' well my dad used to sing "She's got Dickie Davis Eyes" Anon
- I used to think the song Bette Davis Eyes was called 'she's got better days besides'.— JJ Simpson
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to believe that people got their footprints in the sidewalk by stomping really hard.— Shantelle
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty