While walking down the streets of Chicago, my mom always made sure we avoided the grates. I asked her why and she said that I would fall in if I walked on top of them. It was really because she didn't want to get her high heels stuck. I still avoid them for some reason.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- i once thought that if you jumped high enough in the air, you'd get stuck!Anon
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job
- I sed to think that thw only reason we stuck to the earth was because is spins around!— imgareth
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy