When I was little I was terrified of the garbage truck. I believed if it saw me the big long arm that grabbed the trash can was going to come and grab me and throw me away!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to want to be a garbage man when I was older because I belived they only worked one day a week— Oscar the Grouch