neighbourhood

i used to believe that when you stepped on,
and crunched leaves you could control them.

In elementary school, my mother was always asking me if i wanted to go to the school sock hop. Our school called their school dances sock hops, as in you are dancing and your feet in their socks are hopping around. I didn't get that. I always believed that they were playing sac racing games where you get in a potato sack and race people. I missed out on a lot.

My brother used to think those yellow street signs with the wavy lines behind a car that indicated curves on the road ahead actually meant that there were snakes on the road ahead. If I recall correctly he was quite frightened by this.

I use to buy a lot of used cd's at a store where they had a large selection of cd's with the initials "VS" on them. I thought that "VS" was a person who had sold back his old cd's. I can remember thinking that i would like to meet the guy who is selling back hundreds of cd's. As it turned out, "VS" stood for "very scratched". Doh!

When I was 3 or 4, I used to be afraid of cows. One day I moved to a different town and there was a river behind the house. My mom was afraid that I'd go wander off to the river and fall in so in order to keep me away from the river, she told me that the cows had a house down there (an old dog house in the water)and that I couldn't go down there.

i use to believe there we small people in the street lights and turned on the lights at night

I used to think that the sign on the side of the road that said, "Stop Ahead" meant someone had their head in the road and you had to stop so you wouldn't run it over. My first day at school when the school bus picked me up at the bus stop...I started yelling "Stop! There's a head!" I couldn't understand why the bus driver didn't stop and then started laughing when I tried to explain why I had asked her to....

When i was little, my mom used to tell me that if i got near the street drain the people eater would come out and get me. For years i was scared to death that the people eater would come out and get me.

When I was little, everyday I would walk with my babysitter and her son to pick up my sister from school. On our way, there was a footprint in the cement. My babysitter used to say, "Someone must have put their foot in the cement while it was still wet." So everyday it rained after that I would stop and jump on the cement to see if I could make a footprint too!

I was at my friend Zala's (yes, that really is her name) house when I was little, and she was allowed to ride her bike in the street because it was a 'dead end'. I thought that meant you could take a gun and shoot the street and it would be dead.

When I was about 6 or 7, the owner of the neighboring farm was named "Ardell". I thought that he was "our dell", and that probably lots of people had their dells. I think this belief was related to the children's song "The farmer in the dell".

When I was little, my town had a big red water tower and it had a picture of Donald Duck on it. I remember that there was also a orange juice that Donald Duck on it. I thought that the water tower was filled with orange juice.

when i was 7 years old my brother told me that water towers would hold aliens and space ships inside. I belived this for one week and when my freinds laughed at me i knew not to trust my broyher anymore with belifes.

One day a long time ago, I asked my dad what those big towers with the flashing lights were there for (radio towers). He said they build them up and put the flashing lights on them to keep airplanes from running into them. He didn't tell me anything else, so I believed they were just there as an obstacle course for planes or something.

I used to believe that if i dug a hole under my fence in my back garden it would lead me to Narnia.

When i was about 5 i thought that evil alian monkeys lived under the sidewalks. i would see if i could hear them talking about taking over the world.