my mother used to tell me that in new york city, it was against the law to look up at the buildings. she told me this because she didn't want me bumping into people, but i believed it for the longest time, and to this day i regret not having looked up at the twin towers more often.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- I used to believe that the "real" Santa Claus was at Macy's in New York City. All the rest were fakes. — Marcia
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty
- When i was about 4 or 5, for the longest time, i believed that the preist of our church was god.— hunnybee
- I used to believe that every person in the world had a twin, and that I had a long-lost twin in France.— Ashley
- For the longest time I believed New Hampshire was New Hamster and that was where all the hamsters came from. — Giny