cars

When my father was driving my mother and me in our car he would frequently take off his glasses and hand them to my mother and ask her to clean them. This terrified me. I thought that when you wore glasses you were literally blind when you took them off.

John Adams

I USED TO BELIEVE...AT THE AGE OF EIGHT YESRS OLD, WHEN MY FATHER AND UNCLE WERE ADMIRING AN OLD 1947 PLYMOUTH, BLACK AND RUSTED, SITTING IN TALL WEEDS- THEY TURNED ON THE OLD AM RADIO WITH TO SOUNDS OF THE GRAND OLE OPREY, FAINT IN VOLUME BECAUSE OF THE STATIC THAT:
OLD CARS PLAYED OLD MUSIC. IT TOOK YEARS BEFORE I EVER HAD INTEREST IN ANTIQUE CARS.

CAPTAIN CARL

When my parents were recounting incidents from their trip to NYC, they said that they had run into some friends. I thought this meant an automobile collisin, and I wondered why they did not seem unhappy at the damage.

Anon

When I was young and my dad would stop for gas and say "Fill it up Ethyl" I thought all gas station attendants were named Ethyl.

jan

once, when riding in the car with an aunt, I asked her if we could turn up
the air condiioner. she told me no, because if the air conditioner blew too long on
one part of your body it would freeze. I really believed this until I was close to 20!
I thought that there was some chemical or something that came from the vents!

Tara

My daughter believes that a car behind us is going to wherever we are going. If we get on the highway and that car passes us she gets very upset that they are going to get there first. Competitive much?!

Jennifer

I used to believe that the sun, stars, and moon were following me when in a car.

Toy

I used to believe that if you went near a car's exhaust fumes your legs would get stuck together. It only occured to me that this was not actually the case when I was about 16 and finally came to really thinking about it!

Katie G

When I was in the back of a car one rainy day, one of my mother's friends remarked that the windshield wipers were hypnotizing. I had always wanted to know what it felt like to be hypnotized, so I would stare at the windshield wipers in every car I got into. Never worked. Every once in a while, I catch myself still doing it.

Nicole

I used to pretend on trips that the car was being followed by a giant rat, who would grow huge and round by eating giant blocks of "freeze dried tubifex worms", which is what we would feed my pet newts and frogs. After eating enough of these blocks, the rat would start rolling after the car like a ball and his tail would become a fuse, turning him into a bomb.

Jonathan Franz

when I was a kid growing up in Indiana my My dad always drove a pick up truck and my mom always drove a car. I was convinced for some reason that when kids get get old enough to drive, boys were only supposed to drive trucks and girls were only supposed to drive cars

Kevin

I used to think that the way a car ran was by the propulsion of exhaust from the tail-pipe. I still think it is true.

Michael

When I was little my father told me that little men lived under the hood of his car and when he pressed a button they would pee on the window to clean it. I used to try to see them from the front seat, but they were always to fast.

G.

When I was little, while driving in the car, I used to look at the trees we would pass, and I believed that they were running the opposite way, as if to flee from some terrible monster. I used to be scared for my parents to drive any farther.

Kristen

My mom used to tell us kids that if you put your arm out of the car window,that it would fall off.

Kathy G.

When I was around five years old, while my mother was driving, she would tell me not to stick my hands and arms out of the car while she was driving, because they would get chopped off. So I thought people in other cars carried axes and the minute I stuck out my arm, it would be actually chopped off with an axe.

Claudine

I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch

Martin

i thought when you went road hunting for deer i thought you ran them over

nick

I was told that rumble strips at the side of the road were initially put there as a test to see if it would help the blind drive

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