I was told that when the ice cream van came around, if he was playing music (which he always was to announce his arrival), it meant he had run out of ice cream - how cruel was that!!!
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When I was a kid growing up, I would never step in a whole in the ground because I thought you would fall throught the earth.
Whenever I walked past a derelict building i always used to read the sign that said "Bill Posters will be prosecuted", I always felt sorry for Bill, who ever he was!!!
At night, while walking along the sidewalk, I would see the reflection of car headlights on the power wires up above. Since they moved quickly and disappeared after a while, I thought I was seeing electricity moving through them.
I used to think that when you poster a letter in a letterbox it would go straight to the person you sent it to.
Until now I have never thought about this but now of course there is E-mail Spooky eh?
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My Grandfather convinced me that there was a little man who lived under the road who turned the cats eyes on for us when we passed.
My parents told me that when the ice-cream van played its music, it meant that they had run out of ice-cream and lollies
I used to believe that when you posted a letter ina letter box it would go striaght in the front door if whever you sent it to
When younger, on certain days of the week I used to wake up to the sound of the World turning around. A kind of faint whirring sound. It wasnt til I was a teenager that I realised the noise was coming from the local Go-Kart track !!
When I was very young, maybe 4, my parents were discussing sending my sister and me to swimming lessons while we were driving home from Grandma's house one day. At that moment, I looked out the window and saw the tennis court at a local park. I immediately assumed the tennis court was a swimming pool. For years I wondered how they kept the water in, with only chain link fencing.
One of my friends who was 17 at the time asked me "Why are all Fire Engines called Dennis?"
That joke ran and ran!
My cousin told me that in her local swimming pool they had a chemical that turned your wee bright red and it would follow you around so everyone would know what you'd done. Sure worked on me, I made the effort to get out and use the loos after that!
i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it
Every year around the end November I would go to Manchester with my Mum and Dad. The trip was to look around the large stores, mainly to look at the toys ready for the big day, Christmas. Always without fail my mum would say to Dad, lets go to C&A's before we go home.
I could never understand why we NEVER EVER saw Anne Hayes!!!
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When I was little my parents would tell me that when the icecream man played music that there was no icecreams left!
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I was told that they were used to boil up old bones to make glue - I believed this for years ( and deep down what you are told as a child has a habit of sticking!)
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when i was younger i used to believe that oil and petrol patches on the floor were dead rainbows.i used cry whenever i saw one.
I once told my enquiring 5 year old that the birds switched on the street lights as it became dark by pecking the little knobs on the top of them. It wasn't until she was 12 years old (!)that she even considered what I'd said when she asked.... 'how do the birds know when to turn the lights off?'!!! As she said the words she, for the first time, realised how silly it sounded, and what a wonderful 7 years of magic she had quite happily accepted as fact and been believing in all this time.
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When we were little, my sister and I were told that if we trod on the cracks in the pavement, then a lion would come out and gobble us up.
When I was five, I asked my mum how the street lamps came on on their own. My mum looked at me then she looked up at a lamp and said "You see those little knobs on the top of each one, well, as it's getting dark the birds come along and peck those knobs which are the light switches". I believed the seagulls turned on all street lamps until I was nearly twelve, when I asked "how do the birds know when to turn the lights off again?" As soon as I said it the penny dropped! She'll never let me forget it.