cars

When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.

Mina Tova

My dad told me and my siblings to scrunch together in the back seat of his truck whenever we'd pull out of our driveway, so we'd fit.

@L_

When we went on car trips my parents used a stick-on screen on the car windows, to keep out the sun. One time my brother took one off the window and placed his finger over a hole in the bottom of it. He told me it was peanut butter, and I remember trying to get it out as hard as I could.

NuMo

i used to sit in the back seat of the car and use the frost scrapper as a steering wheel, pretending to drive. on the way to the store, we'd pass under i-270, and i swore that the day i got my driver's license i would hop on 270 and ride it till the end, wherever it took me. i was devastated when i learned i-270 was the city outerbelt, and driving it to its end would mean driving around in circles.

kel

When I was little I used to believe that when you got your drivers license you automatically new how to get everywhere. I still remember sitting in the car with my dad and asking him this question. He never did answere me, he just laughed.

Cathy

I used to believe my dad could honk the car horn by pushing on a mysterious spot on the roof of the car.

sarah b

I used to believe that the semi-trucks that transport livestock, actually were used to collect wind throuhg the slats on the side. The driver drove around, collected the wind in the trucks, then released it at lakes or the ocean. This was the conclusion I came up with when I learned sailboats used wind to move. I figured you had to have a way to guarentee there would be wind to move the sailboat. The first time I actually saw cows in a livestock truck was really sad and confusing. My mom had no idea how I had come up with the idea.

Ren

I use to believe that when the car in front of you put on their turn signal you would have to put your signal on too so that the cars behind you knew that the car in front of you was going to turn. It was only later I realized that everyone was turning.

Cupojoeque

I used to think that the wind-chill factor was the wind-shield factor, and that when you touched the windshield of your car, that's what temperature it felt.

anonymous

I used to belive that the road moved like an escelator and the car stayed in one place.

Anon

I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".

Ray

I was around six when I asked my father what why some cars had GB on the back. He informed me that it was the next stage after being a Learner driver and it meant 'Getting Better'. Seemed reasonable to me.

TD

My sister and I used to believe something bad would happen if you breathed while driving over the bridge, so we held our breaths. Strange that we could breathe in the center at the county line.

Patty, NY

my grandmother had me convinced that you should always lock the car door you were sitting next to, because at any moment it could fly open and you would fall out. I thereafter viewed car doors as unpredictable creatures with an unending desire to fling themselves open and kill me, and it's automatic to lock the door as soon as I'm in the car, even if the car door lock automatically.

Liz

I used to wonder why cars were designed with stuff still 'to do' when you drove them - like gears and stuff. I had always thought you should simply get in, press start and just steer...

anna

My dad used to tell me the moon liked me and followed me. I believed him because I would always see it in the sky when we were driving about in the car at night. I caught on though, when I was about nine when I said "If the moon likes me so much why does it seem to have an unhappy face?"

Fiz