Having grown up in the city, I thought that pavement was the natural state of the world, that lawns were where the cement had been removed, and that curbs were how deep the soil was.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- i use to believe....that cement trucks carried balloons to the Bozo circus....lol— Laura
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- 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 grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM