When I was young I used to believe that streetlights, instead of coming on automatically when it got dark, were in fact operated by two men sat in a control room with loads of switches.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you ate loads and loads of crust from bread it would make you have BIG boobies.— Israel Bliss
- I used to believe that when the streetlights came on it was illegal for children to be outside.Anon
- I used to believe that the remote control could control all the things in my house, including my dog.— Felipe
- i thought 'locus of control" was spelled as "locust of control".. like the bugAnon
- Up until I was 17 I thought that 'no outlet' signs meant that the steet didn't have any streetlights.— Kelsey
- The sun switches off at night and on again in the morning — Edward