I used to believe that the hard white circles of old gum where people spat it out in the street were marks made by walking sticks! I wasn't till I was like 10 that I noticed that the walking sticks were'nt making any marks and that it was gum!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid
- I used to believe that jay walking was walking naked on the street. — Kendra
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake