cars

I used to be terrified of those automatic car washes at gas stations... for some reason all the machinery going around the car and the loud noises made me just FREAK OUT, I thought it was alive or something

PK

Before I could see over the dash-board to see the blinkers on the cars ahead of us , my father informed me that the garage door opener had the power to make a car move out of our lane, he would wait till the car in front turned on the blinker and then press the button, tricked mefor years........... i really wish it still worked

Nate

When my brother and I were young, my mom told us there was a bridge to Hawaii. My brother was fascinated with this. I played it off like I knew better, but I secretly wondered how much gas it would take to get to Hawaii.

Wade

I used to believe that car headlights were like eyes and cars were really monsters. I always resisted going outside to the carport at night for fear of the "carmonster"

kate

I used to believe that the road moved, not the car. Kinda like in the Jetsons on the moving walkway. I remember looking down at the road when we were in the car and it looked as if the road was moving, not us! I think I was 3 or 4 years old.

Anon

I used to believe that when it was sunny and my Mom put the sun visor down to shield her eyes that she could see through it. It looked like it was blocking her vision and she could see right through it.

Melissa

I used to belief that if you bought a car you needed to put it togetter yourself

Bugs

When I was little I never liked to wear a seatbelt, so I would ride on the floorboard of the car. I would lay there and I thought that the sun was blinking, when really it was the car passing tall trees making the sun flash. I thought this for a while until I stood and stared at the sun for a while one day.

Andrea

In the back of our old Chevy Blazer, the radio speaker was right below a pullout ashtray. When i was 3 or 4, i believed that if you pulled on the "little box's handle" (the ashtray), the person who was on the radio talking or singing at the time would pop out.

Sarah

When I was a kid, I traveled form Raleigh to Charlotte, NC quite often. As long as trips seem to kids, I thought that the ride took forever ( a mere 3 hours). But one night we left for Raleigh at about 9:00pm, being that late, I immediatly fell to sleep, and when I woke up after what seemed to me to be no more than about 30 minuits totat travel time, we had arrived in Raleigh. I was then convenced that we lived allot closer to raleigh than my folks had been letting on all this time, and because I was asleep, they decided to take the short cut privy only to adults. It took several years to convence myself that the two towns were accually farther apart that i had imagined. I thought that it was all an adult plot to keep kids from trying to wander over to the next town to go to their Grandma's house!

B McLean

We used to travel a lot when I was a child, and whenever I saw tire tread on the road (from a blown tire on an 18-wheeler) I thought they had just "shed" the tire like a snake and magically had a new tire under it.

Brenda (still wondering)

I grew up in the 70's when cars were very large. They were so large, that I could lay down in the floorboard of the back seat and sleep. Doing this, you could feel every rocking of the car over bumps, etc. I used to think that the roads turned into water and the cars turned into boats. This was, of course, hidden from me because I was a kid.

Boat Car Kid

When I was young, my family moved alot due to my father's work. We racked up alot of miles on the Interstates along the East Coast. We'd move from north to south and back again...it took forever, it seemed neverending. I was afraid that eventually we'd never be able to stop, just keep going and going, up and down hills, the sun always following us. Even though as I grew up, I knew that this was silly, I still, to this day, have nightmares about it.

Erin

I used to believe that one day the freeway across from my house would fill up with water if it rained to hard, and some of the cars would float on top, and some of them would ride on the bottom with their lights on (naturally, the people inside would breathe from the air conditioner vents.)

blnkfrnk

I'm from Israel, and in Hebrew the word 'traffic jam' is the same as a cork. And I always believed that traffic jams are caused because there's a cork in the middle of the street (like from a coke bottle) that somebody left and all the other cars are just trying to avoid

Anon

i used to think that the moon would follow you in the car, also that it looked like a half moon.

natalie k

When I was very young, I use to believe that cars kept the world turning and that if all the cars stopped, the world would stop rotating

Steve

I used to believe that when I was in the car on the highway that we were all in a "huge" indy race.

I used to believe that when you looked up in the sky and saw airplanes and there tail smoke across the sky that those airplanes were called "Guardian Angles" protecting us from evil intruders, not regular passenger jets flying to get people from one state to another.

Leigh Ann

Whenever I heard "cross at the green, not in between," I thought it meant that you were supposed to cross the street when the light is green and all the cars are going, and not when the light is in between (yellow or red). Clearly this was wrong. I made up my own rhyme, "Cross at the red, or get run over instead." It took me years to realize that the rhyme just tells kids to cross at the traffic light.

Pia