When I was little, my grandmother babysat me during the day while my parents worked. She warned me never to stand in the driveway while I was playing in her front yard because cars used the driveway to turn around and she didn't want me getting run over. I took this to mean that if I made any contact with the driveway at all, a car would zoom in (because cars could "sense" when people were in driveways) and run over me. Sometimes I would feel brave and try to test her theory, so I would stand next to the driveway and carefully stick my toe out far enough so that it touched the cement. Nothing happened. So I would step further into the driveway each time until eventually I was actually standing in it. Still nothing happened, and I remember being disappointed because that wasn't very dangerous and here I thought I was being so brave!
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God was the one playing "cars" with our cars. Sounds weird hey?— Roe
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook