cars
Show most recent or highest rated first. Common beliefs in this section include:page 11 of 64
< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 >
I used to believe that the brake pedal on inside of the car were the brake pads. So when someone said the pads were low, I'd look at the pedal and say, "No they're not!"
top belief!
When I was 4 or 5 my Grandma told me while we were riding in the car, that If I didn't duck my head when we went under a bridge I would get a nasty bump
You know I ducked my head for years after she told me that, I think into my teens.
Michael
top belief!
when i was little, i used to think that cars had faces and talked to eachother in the parking lot.
Whitney
top belief!
When I was a little girl and we were driving in the car, I always thought the signs in the residential areas that read "speed radar controlled" meant that my dad couldn't drive any faster than the speed limit because his car was controlled by a radar beam!
Noelle
top belief!
My wife used to believe that the purpose of the stick shift in her Dad's car was to stir the gas.
Curt
top belief!
When I was little I heard my mom and her friends talking about "driving stick" shift but I didn't know what that was, so I imagined them balancing on walking sticks and hopping along.
Madeleine
top belief!
I used to believe that my parents drove the car like a plane - push on the steering wheel to go faster, pull to go slower
top belief!
I used to believe that since I couldn't see the people driving in other cars, that the cars were driving themselves.
I used to believe the turning signals in a car were the car's navi AI. I always wondered how it knew where we were going.
Belle
I used to believe that when your car flashes the blinking lights, that meant it would explode on that side.
Coleen
I used to think that a carpool was an el camino with water in the back that you could sit in and relax while you were driven around.
Courtney
top belief!
When my mom told me "This car won't move until you buckle your seatbelt," I thought the car literally wouldn't move. Maybe there was some sort of electronic locking system that wouldn't let you put the car in gear if all the seatbelts weren't buckled, or something. It never occurred to me that she just meant she wouldn't drive it anywhere.
Eric Schwartz
top belief!
I had been at a low rider hydraulic car show when I was about 7 and I had noticed that all of the car badges were written in Italics. I then connected the two together and assumed that in order for a car to have hydraulics, the name had to be written in italics and any car that had italics, had to have hydraulics.
willow
I thought if you got on a road it took your car wherever you intended to go almost like a train track.
When I was a child, my Father told me that he had to go get a new "sticker" for his truck. The only "sticker" I knew of was a grassbur. I got into the truck, and asked him where the new sticker was. He pointed to a paper thing on the windshield. I asked him again where the "sticker" was, and was yelled at and hit.
top belief!
when i was young my dad told me that convertables converted into stuff and i thought that a car could convert into a dog!
Joshua Bedward
top belief!
When I was a kid we used to take a lot of road trips, and when we got stuck in traffic my mom would always say, "look at this traffic jam." I was about 4 or 5 and I would look at the window for "traffic jam" but didn't know what she was talking about. Then, while playing outside, I saw some puddles in the street with oil floating in them, and I came to the conclusion that this was "traffic jam". I told this matter-of-factly to all my friends in elementary school, until my older sister made fun of me for it.
When I was little I believed cars ran by magnets that someone dragged underneth the road.
Ralph
I used to think that the actual lanes on the motorway (freeway) made the cars go faster - like the inside lanes had some mechanism to tell the car to go faster than the outside lanes.
noogie
top belief!
There was a garage on our block with a sign above the door that said, "All cars must come to full stop." I thought that "Full Stop" was the name of the garage and that every car in the world was obliged to come to it at least once.
CC
I Used To Believe™ © 2002 - 2024 Mat Connolley, another Iteracy website. privacy policy