This isn't me, but my mother. As a kid, she apparently thought that if you saw the street lamps turning off, it was lucky.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.Anon
- I used to think that lave lamps were the devil coming out of them trying to steel my soul. until i was like 10— Bianca
- i believed that moles wore davy lamps on their heads so they could see underground— Omi
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- I had my mom buy a box of lucky charms because I thought the little leprechaun would be inside. — Catherine
- when i was very little, i thought that all girls must do ballets, and that i was lucky who wasn`t forced to. — little miss from norway