One of my first days in preschool I stepped on a crack and one of my classmates freaked out saying that I just broke my mom's back. When my mom picked me up I apologized profusely but instead of setting me straight she replied, "I was wondering why my back hurt all day." I avoided cracks for years until one day I got mad at my mom and stomped on a crack repeatedly. When it didn't work I assumed that it only worked with some cracks and continued avoiding cracks for an embarrassingly long time.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I remember back in sunday school that if you stomped on the ground you would hurt satan. Anon
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon