when i was younger my mum used to tell me and my brothers and sisters about a man who lived over the road from us called the sock-sniffer and she used to say when you walked past him he would steal your socks and sew them onto his jacket.......and i believed her.........o-m-g!!
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid my dad told me that in a package of socks there was a right sock and a left sock.— Christina
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- When I was younger, I used to think people in China walked upside down.— Max
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha