I lived in a seaside town and ofen walked with my grandparents along the cliff top and looked down at the beach and the road next to it.
My grandfather told me that the tiny cars I could see were models that were wound up at each end of the road and sent back again. I beleived this until I was about 9 or 10. I'm stupid
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon