neighbourhood: in the street

I used to believe that little trapped slave kids lived inside streetlights and operated them, because I thought I heard one "crying out to me" one time when I was walking by.

I used to think that if you wanted to rent a Uhaul moving van, you had to use a van that had the name of the state you were moving to on the side (all of the vans feature a random U.S. state), and if they didn't have the state you wanted, you either had to pick another one or wait until somebody from that state moved to where you lived so that a van from the right state would be there. I even thought there a waiting list for popular states.

When I was young, I was quite confused about the purpose of elevators. I understood what they did, but I was always confused by the signs instructing you "in case of fire, do not use elevator". I always thought that meant that in case there was ever a fire, you should never use the elevators. So I wondered, why did they even bother to put them in?

i used to beileve that my neighbor would spy on us so at night iwould cover up all the windows and in the day i made sure every one in my house went out side

I was intrigued by barber poles. I would watch them continuously to see where the ribbons went and where they came from. I imagined them as being incredibly long, and I couldn't figure out how all that ribbon fit in there.

I used to believe that when the local Denny's Diner said, "Open 24 Hours" that meant that the waiters all lived at Denny's, without a day off, and only saw family when the family came to Denny's to eat.

When I was little, we once drove past a Jack in The Box and my sister told me that at exactly noon, Jack((you knwo the guy with the white face and the yellow hat?)) would pop out of the box on top of the big tall sign. I believed her til I was about 8 to 10 years old.

I used to believe that homeless people would catch germs from the unhygienic conditions, and that was why they used to have to get a big bottle of medicine from the chemists and take a big gulp straight out of it. I thought it must have been quick-acting too because they always looked as though they felt a lot better soon afterwards!

when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!

My brother told me that Botts Dots, the raised bumps that separate lanes on the highway, were there so that the blind could drive. I couldn't figure out how blind people would know when to stop because they couldn't see stop signs or traffic signals. It was probably 2 or 3 years later when I realized that my mom just couldn't drive in the lane steadily.

i used to believe that there used to be postal workers underneath the mail boxes who would grab each letter as it was dropped and immediately dispatch it to its destination

When I was young, my mother and I lived in a town home. My mother had the bedroom downstairs, and I had the upstairs room that was more like a loft. It only had a half-wall and I could look down and see the rest of the house. Well, across the way was a long, narrow window that stretched across the opposite wall with a view of a fairly busy street (I don't remember if it was a highway of some sort or not). But when I was little I always thought that the world stopped at a certain time. And by that I mean, I thought everyone went to bed at a certain time. I thought that if I stayed up long enough, the cars would stop driving by because everyone would be at home and in bed. I would climb on my bed and rest my head on the half-wall behind it and watch the cars waiting for them to stop. Needless to say, that never happened, and I always fell asleep waiting for it to. My young mind just couldn't conceive the idea that people were up at all hours of the night and morning.

I used to think that the handy-cap parking spaces in parking lots were for reserved for people who were only going into the building to use the bathroom, since the pictures looked like someone sitting on a toilet. I figured that the parking spaces were so close the the doors so that people could get to the bathroom faster.

In the inner city, one of the main streets I saw was named 'Gay Street.' I thought that many gay men were living along the street.

I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.

When I was 5 I always used to say sorry to lamp posts, when I walked into them. That should have taught me to look where I was going, but still, at the age of 14, I still walk into things.