cars

You know how they paint STOP AHEAD on the road? Well I could never figure out where that head was that we were suposed to be stopping for.

Raku

When I was little, my best friend's mom had a car where you could take out the keys while driving and it'd go on, and she told me it was magic. When she traded it in for a new one I was disappointed that it couldn't do the same thing, so she told me it could fly. I kept on waiting for her to make the car take off into the air like in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

Micah Glenn

I used to believe that cars drove because of hundreds of little people living inside them turning treadmills. I felt rather betrayed when I found out otherwise.

Micah Glenn

my mother and father used to have a Pontiac Grand Am that had the paint peeling off of it. they always commenter that the car had leprocy, obviously i thought that leprocy was when that paint peeled off of your car. in the third grade my teacher asked what leprocy was. i raised my hand and proudly gave my answer (thinking i was a genius). i then learned that i really wasnt.

timmy

my mother used to tell me the bumps (reflectors) dividing the lanes on the street were there so blind people could drive.

jamie

During car rides, it would sometimes seem like the Sun was following our car, although this was just an illusion, due to the sun's enourmous size. How did the sun know to follow just our car?

Anon

When I was young my grampa would always tell us to duck when going underneath a bridge, in the car, or we would bump our heads. Also, to hold our breath when going through a tunnle because the air was bad. Guess, he thought it was funny.

Kel Kel

my grandma used to tell me duck when we were going under a bridge so we wouldnt hit our heads.

lostreality

I used to beleive that gasoline was made from dinosaurs.

Anon

I used to believe that carpooling was actually a pool filled with oil and cars would go in it. I don't know why I thought that, and what the purpose of the car pool was. I even wrote a story about it in second grade.

Julia

At the age of fourteen I had an old motorbike that I rode around the fields. My dad glanced at it one day and said "your milometer runs out soon". I asked him what he meant and he explained that when all the numbers reach nine and then turn over the engine just locks up completely and never goes again. I told him I didn't believe him but I rode it veeerrry slowly when it got near to that number and breathed a big sigh of relief when it didn't stop.

hirudo

I used to think the road we lived on was the longest road on the planet. In reality it's about 50 miles long. Today, I drive the length of it regularly when visiting relatives.

Jerry

I used to believe that the motorway had a special device underneath it that made cars go faster. Now that I think about it, the device was clockwork and had many flashing red lights.

Will

I used to believe that the bands we heard on the radio in the car were live performances. There were little people in the car dashboard. Since my mother listened to the Beatles quite often, I thought there were mini copies of the Beatles living in my car and we could command them to play songs for us. There were also announcers and such.

Miss Julie

My mother told my little brother and I that the cigarette lighter in the car was a detonation device that would make the car explode.

Erin