When I was little, my grandfather told me that all the left shoes travelled in a different lorry to the right shoes, so that if there was an accident people couldn't steal pairs of shoes. This was enforced by the fact that we always seemed to see Hush Puppy lorries travelling in twos.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- Until about age 11 i thought that "Hush Puppies" the shoes were made from real puppies!— Laura
- I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.— Casey
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- i use to beleive that horseraddish came from horses shoesAnon