Growing up I believed that once I left my street, I was out of my hometown. I was baffled when my parents would take me a couple of streets down, asking "what town are we in NOW?", and they would replay with a blank expression "We're still in [hometown]."
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- My friend told me she had invented the expression 'Gordon Bennett' and I believed her!— SueE
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- According to my mom, whenever I saw a stray dog in the street I would ask where its parents were. — Meg
- I used to think that the expression "The former or the latter?" was actually "The farmer or the ladder?" — Fitzwilliam
- I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.Anon
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson