neighbourhood: in the street

I thought thyat the big bags of laundry that I would see on the tops of trucks [I think the company was National] was money, like the armoured cars, and if they fell off, you cuold keep it.

when I was little, and on road trips. My mom used to say that the telephone poles were full of spaghetti sauce and the wires were spaghetti and the metal can shaped things attached to the top were full of cheese. and when people were hungry and short on cash they could have spaghetti.

when I was little I use to to love bums who played music in the train station for money.I used to ask for money from my mother every time that I saw one. I thought that they might want a sandwich and a house so I would put money into the cups until my mother told at once that they would spend the money on drinks and drugs and then I lost interest in bums.

My sister thought there was a little man inside traffic lights who would run up and down all day making them go red, orange and green!

I used to believe that the statue of the WWI soldier in front of the high school was the Statue of Liberty. I don't know why.

I used to believe that when you moved house, you swapped homes with the other owners, who would then move into your old home.

I used to believe that the stairs that you took up to the top of a parking ramp lead to an airport.

Someone I know used to think that the smoke from smokestacks made clouds.

I truly believed that body shops were there for those that wanted to replace their own body parts. The fact that there were always people hanging around reenforced the thought. How I wish it were true!

i used to believe that if you fell through the space between steps, you'd fall to hell. i was morbidly afraid af steps with spaces between them.

when I was 5 I would run home terrified when a saw a backhoe driving up the street because I believed it would tear our house down

Whenever I would go for a walk with my grandma when I was around the ages of 4 or 5 I firmly believed that if I ever stepped on a crack in the sidewalk that a police car would come roaring down the street and arrest me for doing so.

I used to believe that 'Sky Scrapers' were big rakes on pivots, that swayed in a smooth side-to-side motion scraping the clouds.

I have since found out (1980ish) they are just tawdry, vacuous, boring old buildings and in more recent times... Sadly.. suitable targets for terrorist attack..!!
Innocents is bliss

I believed that all houses came equipped with power, water, and phones.

I believed that families lived in houses, and single people lived in apartments.

When i was around 10 give or take, me and my friends actually believed we could build some sort of secret world below the ground outside in the apartments where we lived you know a little secret underground fully equiped with a tv and everything. So after carefully thinking thru and discussing this top secret project and making sure nobody finds out especially any grown ups, we got prepared for some serious digging. We dug at the side of the building maybe a 10 square foot area. It was a hidden area so we dug all day. I think we even continued the next day first thing. Well we had dug so deep we were all having second thoughts thinking about the trouble we would get in if caught.
Sure enough not too long after that the landlord caught us and almost had a heart attack. We had almost dug out a swimming pool.

I used to think people remembered their old neighbours by thinking times they saw each other in the garden and spoke over the fence.

When I was a child I used to think that there were witches in the street were I live because that is in fact its name.