cars
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When I was young I used to think to that cars actually bent around corners...I had no idea that the wheels turned
Joe's Wife
When I was little about five, I used to think that all the cars on the rode were tied together with invisible string. And when one car would turn off the lane and broke the string they all had to pull over and tie the cars back together again.
Jeana Thomas
top belief!
When I was a kid, I loved music. I used to sing along to the radio in the car with my parents, and somehow I got the idea that other people would think I was a famous singer and move out of the way in their cars. So if my parents were in a hurry, I used to sing until the car ahead of us switched lanes.
Theresa
when i was 8 or 9, whenever my dad said that we were going to drive on the harbour bridge, i thought that we were actaully going to drive over the top of the brigde and not the road, so i was scared
simone
i used to beleive that a traffic jam was wen cars got stuck in jam!
When I was little I never knew that there where roads u could cross to another road well i used to think that the car would stand up on its back tires and pick up its paint like a dress and tip toe across the grass!!!!!
Jessica
When I was young I did not understand on the car mirror how it said "Object's in mirror are closer than they appear"....somehow I thought, "If something appears in the mirror, how can it be closer than it appears?"
Jaime B
When I was little I asked my mother what the little bumps (the reflectors) in the middle of the road were for, she replied that it was there so blind people knew they were in their lane.
Drea
top belief!
When I was young, I was always confused about how, at night, the car-lights on one side of the road were always red, while the ones in the other one were white. It never occured to me that the cars were going in different directions, and for years I was convinced that there were designated "white-light" and "red-light" lanes. But it always confused me that we were always in the "red-light" lane, since I had seen the white front headlights once when my mom was pulling into the garage. I rationalized that the lights change color as you are pulling into your garage.
confused as a child
I was just a little kid when my parents bought their first new car and it had cruise control. My mom took the car out the highway one day and told me to watch as she set the car in cruise control. I watched and saw the pedal move by itself and at the same time she took her hands off the steering wheel for a secord or two. That was all I needed to believe that cruise control was the setting that made the car drive itself like the cars I'd seen in tv shows. Although I could never really understand how it worked I secretly believed it to be true. It wasn't until I was 15 yrs old and saw my boyfriend drive with cruise control that it suddenly became clear to me! Gosh, I was gullible back then!
Rachel
I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films
Stano
My sister used to tell me that if she pressed the button on the hand brake of the car then it would blow up. She would taunt me with it until mum and dad got back.
I also used to believe that your belly button could come undone and you would fall apart. On a particularly hot day I had a bit of a sweatiy belly button and was convinced that it had come undone and I was leaking out from myt belly button, much to the amusement of my parents.
And finally my dad had my sister and I believing that elephants were frightened of mice because they ran up their trunks and ate their brains. I told everyone! Thanks dad
painted lady
When i was a lil youngun, i thought that all cars were made by the same company!
Shorty
Once my friend was crying because she'd hurt her arm in the electric window in her mum's car. I didn't know what an elecric window was so I presumed she touched it and got an electic shock!
When my dad used to drive me to school when I was about seven, I somehow came up with the idea that if I didn't tap my thumb against the window in between telephone poles, the engine would explode. I still catch myself amusing myself in this absolutely *riveting* of thumb-tapping often.
Morgause
When I was young, I thought that you would get into your car , then just move the steering wheel and the road would move underneath you.
Beth
I believed that a short-wheel base truck was for people who hadn't quite saved enough money for the whole truck.
Likewise, that a convertible was for folks who couldn't afford the whole car.
mc
I used to believe that the purpose of a car's engine was to turn the "propeller" that's in front of the radiator. After all, they make planes move, don't they? I'm sad to say my understanding of cars today is not much better.
Gary
When I was around three years old, I overheard my mother and grandmother talking about car insurance. I asked them what car insurance was. My mother tried to explain, saying something like, "it's a piece of paper that protects your car in case of an accident". I tried to picture this scenario. I imagined a small piece of paper from one of those sticky-pads I liked to draw on at home, stuck on one spot on the front of a car. I became completely confused, wondering how one piece of paper could protect your car in an accident.
Spark
I thought that when you were driving there was someone at the front of all the cars... Like it was a line... and i thought the person at the front of the line must have a lot of pressure on his/her back. I didn't understand the concept that people actually had to go somewhere.
Rachel
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