When I was little there were a signs inside the trams saying “No smoking or spitting allowed”. I understood about noisy spitting but I could never understand how someone could smoke out loud…
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- My older sister used to beleive that when it rained, the angels in heaven were having a spitting contest— Doblica W.
- I used to think that my dad was "smoking pot" when he would smoke his pipe while sitting on the toilet. Anon
- I used to believe only women who had sex were allowed to smoke. Whatever sex was.— Robert
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie