When I was little my dad told me to throw my gum in the street that way it would fill up the cracks and they (the city) wouldn't have to pave the roads as much. It wasn't until someone asked me why I always threw my gum in the street that I started doubting my dad (I was 28).
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I thought a highwayman was just someone who helps pave the road and stuff like that— Nate
- When I was little I thought that the street lights went out after everyone went to bed.— supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- According to my mom, whenever I saw a stray dog in the street I would ask where its parents were. — Meg
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.Anon