There was a relatively short period of time in my childhood where I was very paranoid about quicksand. I would avoid light spots in black pavement (small rocks, presumably) in order to not be sucked into quicksand!
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you would explode if you drank cola and ate pop rocks at the same time.Anon
- I used to belive that if you drank soda pop and ate pop rocks at the same time, your head would blow up. — erin
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate. — elodie, French student in eighth grade
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM