When I was 2 or 3 I used to believe that, when you mailed a letter, it went down a chute under the mailbox and was somehow (pneumatically?) whisked into your mailbox at home. When walking along the street with my mother, I used to peer under mailboxes, looking for the chute.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- I used to believe that jay walking was walking naked on the street. — Kendra
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby