My younger brother swears that I told him if he stood between the rails on the railroad track, he couldn't be injured. Yes, he's still alive!
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- I thought the underground railroad was actually a subway.— Greg
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.— Liz
- I used to believe when I was a child that when I was injured, the wound would never be repaired or cured.— solid