Before I was old enough to go to school my grandmar looked after me during the day, whenever we went out anywhere she told me that if I tried to cross the road when there was a car coming i would "get squashed flat like a penny!" and she would always give me a penny to hold to remind me. This thought petrified me, I was always very careful when crossing the road, and I beleived I would end up as flat as a penny untill I was about 10!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie
- I used to believe that the earth was flat.— Rt.y
- I used to believe that if you bled to death, you'd get flat!— Lisa G