cars

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

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

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

I used to believe that when my parents and i were driving home at night the moon would follow us to make sure we got home safely,

melissa

I thought the signs and ads offering cash for cars and PU's meant they would buy used cars and really really bad used cars "peeeyeuuu". They meant Pick-ups.

Len

I used to believe that the cats eyes i the middle of the road actually were just that! And that everytime my dad ran over one in the car, he had killed a cat!

Jayne Pickard

When I was little, I used to believe that my dad was enormously clever, because however far we were driving, he always knew the way. I imagined every trip was like knowing how to get from our house to school, once you'd made the journey 4 or 5 times, you remembered it, but someone who knew the way had to show you first.

I also used to worry in case we had to go to the wrong sort of garage and get different petrol than that currently in the tank. I thought you couldn't mix Esso with Shell for instance.

Chris Smith

I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!

angela

My father told me when I was five that the catseyes in the centre of the road were for blind drivers. I believed this until I was 16!

Anon

I use to wonder why couln't a person fall asleep if he turned his cruise control on. I use to think that cars drove themselves when the cruise control was on. I didnt find out the truth until I was about 15!! Talk about slow!!

myty

I thought that when you were driving there was someone at the front of all the cars... Like it was a line... and i thought the person at the front of the line must have a lot of pressure on his/her back. I didn't understand the concept that people actually had to go somewhere.

Rachel

when we would go on long trips i would ask my mom how many more miles until we got there. she said "i don't know, they change the mile markers every once in awhile."
i believed her...

l0s3r

My dad told me that I could make the windshield wipers go on in his car- all I had to do was say "now!". Little did I know he had control of them. Darn. He also told me I could change a red light to green by saying "red light green light 1 2 3". He was just watching the lights for the other direction go red and telling me when to 'work my magic'.

Anon

As an important safety tip, mom used to tell me to have my keys ready in my hand when entering a parking garage (kinda strange advice for a 5 year old, but you never know).
For the longest time I thought women did this because the keys could be used as a weapon to gauge an attacker's eyes out.

sally

when i was little about 4 or 5 while i was in the car i used to imagine all the cars on the road were in a big race and that we had to go the fastest so we would win the race and get a prize. weird yet true

confused and young

When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stick

Anon

Carsick - meant that the car was sick and would throw up

One set of keys could operate every car in the world, and if you lost your keys, you could use someone elses.

When playing with Lego/Matchbox cars, opening all doors made the cars have wings and fly

Carpool - A pool for cars

The glove compartment has gloves in it (seriously, has anyone ever kept gloves in there?)

William

I doubt any of you have ever heard about polonez, the Polish car. It was named after famous national dance, but as a child I always associated it with car (of course kids don't know much about dances, but about cars passing their houses many times a day they always do), and at the lesson in second grade (8 yrs old) I found poem in my Polish book about dancing polonez. I had been wondering why do they like to write about car until teacher explained what was the poem about.

Polonez rulez

As all young kids do, I liked to watch TV. From movies and TV shows, I began to stereotype certain groups of people. When I was young, I could never understand why I saw blind people driving vehicles ALL THE TIME. I mean, blind people can't see the road, let alone, another vehicle coming at them. Right? My fascination with blind drivers stemmed from what I saw in the movies. From those shows, my stereotype of blind people were that they wore dark glasses. In fact those glasses could almost be mistaken for SUNGLASSES... hmmmm

Jennifer

When I was young my parents would toot the car horn every time we drove through a tunnel, and told us that it was the tunnel honking at us. My sisters and I believed this for YEARS and were always sooo excited to go through a tunnel!

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