In the alley behind our house, up on the telephone wires, was a rectangular box a foot or so long.
I believed that I saw it slide back and forth along the line between the poles, its purpose- to knock the snow off.
Now I know that it was just an (immobile) weatherproof connector for the wires, and my seeing it move must've been a dream.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that bird perched on telephone wires to keep their feet warmAnon
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen