cars

When riding in our car I used to believe that the noises the car made when it went over a small series of bumps in the road was what those car commercials meant by "horsepower" because to me that sounds exactly like a horse running. To this day it reminds me of horses and how I used to think of that noise as the cars "horsepower."

Adam

I used to think cars drove themselves and automatically knew when to stop at stop signs, which way to go, etc. (this was long before Knight Rider)

Brandon Campbell

When I was little, I thought the turn signal on the car was used in order to turn. When my mother didn't use it one time, I couldn't understand how she was able to turn into the parking lot.

sterling

When my sister was very small she used to think that the cats eyes in the road were actually little lights and that there was a little man who ran along in front of the car turning them on and another man who ran behind truning them off...classic!

Alice

I use to be afraid of the Chrystler (I think...) logo because the pentegon was sectioned at each corner making it look like a bunch of pointed teeth that would bite your hand off.

m0u5y

A friend of mine actually believed this story that her dad told her. They were driving one day and she asked her dad what the bumps were in the middle of the road (road reflectors). He told her that it was brail so that blind people can drive.

J-Golds

I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.

Liza P.

I used to believe that the only people who rode in limos were famous. Every time one passed by our car I would try to sit and act in a way that I thought would impress some movie hot shot. I thought they would track me down through our license plate and ask me to be the next child star!

Liza P.

When i was little i alway was reading, and one day i came across the word S.U.V. and i knew it was a car and i thought it sounded cool so that was my favorite car was. The problem is i pronouced it SOOV and whenever anyone asked me what kind of car i wanted that what i said and sadly i this went on until 5th grade.

erin

My dad told me that when he pressed a button his truck would fly. So i thought that the overdrive button meant the truck would go over things and i never touched that button.

Caroline

When I was about 5 or 6, I believed that there was a paintbrush with yellow paint on it underneath our car that would paint the yellow dashes on the road on highways. I searched under our car many times when it was parked, but I never saw any paintbrush or a paint can. This probably came from the fact that I was always stuck in the back of the car on road trips.

Beamer

I used to believe that you were allowed to drive as fast as you wanted through tunnels. I still believe it was my dad who told me this, he refuses though...

Anon

I remember I was very little and we were driving in to a ferry with our car. The boat opened and it had big teeth! I was so scared and cried, I didn't want to be eaten by the boat.

Marie

everytime i went to Toys R Us i used to get worried because there was one of those height bars on the car park and i used to think, omg what happens when our car grows and we cant get in!

Lisa

I used to believe that the car would tip over going around corners. I was sure that all the passengers had to make sure they were evenly distributed in the car so that it would stay on the road!

Gull-able

When I was a kid I thought that the handbrake would stop the car dead in it's tracks no matter what, and whenever I saw a car skid into something on TV I'd say "He shoulda used the emergency brake..."

Anon

I thought the reason only adults could drive was that their legs had to be long enough to reach down through the floor of the car to the ground, like in the Flintstones.

Lyssa

I thought small cars grew up to become big cars

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