cars

My mom would tell us kids to press our hands on the roof of the car as we passed under a bridge. This was to hold up the bridge so it would not fall on us as we passed under it.

love you Mom :)

PJ

My son saw a tow-truck dragging a car behind it. He said"What is wrong with the car?".I said" the battery is dead"
. He said'Who killed the battery?"

anon.

When I was very small, I used to have terrifying dreams about being stuck in a car in the middle of a large drawbridge as it opened. I still do on occasion, and I don't like traveling over large bridges of any kind (sometimes the dreams are about bridges that I know are not drawbridges in real life.) I sometimes wonder whether I am destined to die in a drawbridge accident.

JCS

That when my dad put fuel in the car you could only use petrol from the one petrol company and that if you used fuel from another company your car would break down. I thought the fuel from each company was different

Maree

I used to believe that when my parents drove to my grandparents house they could do something to make the trip long or short. I would always hope they would make it short. It took a while for me to realize that the "short" trips were short because I had fallen asleep.

Anon

This concerns the large pieces of rubber that come off the tires of semi tractors and trailers.
When my son was about five and we were driving on the freeway, I told him this was wild rubber that was run over while trying to cross the interstate at night. He believed that for a couple of more years before finding out the truth.

Mike

I used to believe that freeways (Highways) were giant conveyor belts, and when cars got onto one it would know where the driver was going, and would deposit the car at the exit nearest thier destination. I was a weird kid! :-P Still am weird!

Celia H.

When I was young and tried to sleep in the backseat of my parents car while driving down the highway, my parents would wait until I was dozing off and say excitedly to each other 'Look! Look at that herd of elephants! There must be 100 of them!" As dopey as I was even I knew that couldn't be [living in Canada] but they were persistant. I had to get up and look. They were twisted at times.

Craig H

When I was about 4 or 5, I believed that Cars didn't really move. But that the Earth rotated under them, and you had to time it just right to make your turns.

Jeff McCorkle

i used to believe that when we got into the car, the world would move and we stayed still

zacula

I'm not sure how old I was when I realized that, contrary to my Mother's stories, it is physically possible to start a car even when your seat belt isn't buckled.

Anon

My family and I use to travel alot when I was young. I thought that when we were driving somewhere and there was a lot of cars comming toward us on the road that they were driving away from a monster and we were heading right for it!

Shawn

I used to believe that when we'd drive under a arched bridge that the car would drive on the bottom side of the bridge and we would do a backflip.... WAIT I STILL DO BELIEVE :(

Cesar

Living on the coast we went to the beach a lot growing up. On the way we passed through many bridges and we always were told to "hold or breath." I always heard "hold your breast." It took a while for me to catch on..

Anon

I believed my dad had this strange control over the windshield wipers. Often when it would rain, he would snap his fingers at the exact moment when the wipers would go across the windshield. I could never figure out how he did it. Come to think of it, I still can't.

Anon

When I was little, I use to think that if a car ran out of gas, then, you couldn't fill it back up and then you couldn't drive the car no more.

Jeana