What untruth did you believe for the longest time?
1. Jackie from Albany writes: "As a child, I believed that only on the white stripes of the zebra crossing you would be safe from cars running you over. I always thought adults were extremely brave risking to walk across and stepping on the dark 'stripes'. I also believed the little ladder on the back of the caravans led to a little swimming pool on top. We neither owned a caravan nor a pool."
2. David writes: "My dad would tell me there was a monkey at the zoo paid peanuts to jump across a switch board and turn the street lights on and off. When we would see a light off at night or on in the day we would email the zoo asking the monkey not be paid peanuts because of the mistake. Believed this and told others till a teenager, when [Dad] slipped up and let cat out of the bag."
3. "For many years as a child I believed when the old year's calendar was taken down, there was a gap in time, which I could fall through and get lost forever," writes a reader. "Time only started again when the new year's calendar was put up. I would run from the house terrified when mother took the old calendar down and hold my breath until I was sure she had put the new calendar up."
