When I was a kid our house was on a dirt road, with the main paved road just two houses down. My mom always told me I shouldn't go on the pavement with my bike because I might be hit by a car, but I didn't hear "pavement". I heard "pregnant". So I went around the neighborhood telling all the kids they couldn't go on that road because it was pregnant. The laughter still rings in my ears....
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon