My friend Sergio told me he used to believe that those streaky slicks of petrol you see in puddles sometimes were dead rainbows.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to think oil patches on the roads was dead rainbows— Si
- I used to believe that some puddles had bottoms and if you jumped in others you'd fall forever and ever.— abi
- I used to believe that rainbows got scared and went away if you went outside— Kate
- I used to believe that rainbows were lights that humans sent to the sky— Julia
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- When I was a sprog, I used to think that Rainbows were painted in the sky by magic fairies— Jojo