I used to know a girl at school who'd been told when she was very young that cats eyes in the road were gnomes under the road with torches who had to run along and shine their torches through the holes as you drive along.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to believe all dogs were male and all cats were female. I still call dogs "boy" and cats "girl." — Kelly F.