I suppose hearing 'where there's smoke there's fire' led me to believe that there were fires under the street-- why else would there be smoke billowing out of the subway grates? What disturbed me even more was the fact that none of the pedestrians walking right through this smoke seemed to care and just went about their business!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- I used to believe that clouds came from the smoke that came from the factories. — Anela
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- I used to believe that if you smoked too much,when you got mad your ears would smoke.Anon
- I thought in order to smoke a cigarret, you had to eat it!— Zoe
- When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around— Nick aged 8