cars

when i was younger i used to think no-one was driving cars and it was only my family who were allowed to...

Lucie x

When I was young, I thought that if you put the hazard lights on while the car was moving, it would explode. I'm still not entirely sure where I picked this up.

Anon

When i was little, my gramma would tell me about how cars used to have to be plugged in in order to work. I was always thinking that they had a special car outlet, and then i was thinking that the car wouldnt be able to get very far being plugged into a wall..not even with an extension cord.

shocked

When I was little (And I still am), around 14 (Im 15 now).. So, not even a year ago, my mother and I were on our way to Tim Hortens.. My sister was there with us, she's only a year younger than me..
My mom had just baught her new car and said it was great because there wasn't alot of kilometers..
I was like "But dont you WANT kilometers?"
My sister looked at me and was like "No, wtf!"
Then I go "But if you run out of kilometers, how would you get anywhere?"
I use to think that kilometers meant how far you could go.

My mom thought this was SO funny, every new person she meets and asks her about her new car, she mentions my story to them! How embarassing on my part!

Missa ~SoapSuds

If the lights in the car were on, you'd get arrested by the police

Anon

that car headlamps were eyes. the ones that rose up really freaked me out!

Anon

My son saw a tow-truck dragging a car behind it. He said"What is wrong with the car?".I said" the battery is dead"
. He said'Who killed the battery?"

anon.

My parents and I often went on little road trips when I was younger and I didn't fully understand how cars worked. For some odd reason I believed that the roads were like giant conveyor belts and the cars just sat on them. The cars that passed us were just on faster belts. I have no clue why I thought that...

Neil

When driving along, my Nana asked my dad what the yellow rumble strips (those lines on the road before roundabouts) are for. My dad made a joke about them being for blind drivers. Of course no one in the car took what he was saying seriously.... except the innocent little child in the back of the car (me). It was a couple of years before I sat up in bed in the middle of the night thinking "there can't be blind drivers! How would they see the roadsigns?"

Justin Directory

I used to think that petrol was the car's food so the car would grow bigger and go faster..

Eduardo

we'll soon be there

johnboy

I used to have a sports coupe with a pretty nice stereo system installed. There were small controls on the steering wheel that controlled the most common functions of the stereo, such as switching between the CD and the radio, changing CD tracks or channels, volume control, etc.. These controls allowed the driver to operate the stereo without taking his/her eyes off of the road.

I'm a computer programmer, and I duped my sister and two of her friends into thinking that I had reprogrammed the stereo into responding to my voice commands. I'd say something like "volume down" and then turn the stereo down using the steering wheel controls. When it wouldn't respond to their commands, I simply told them that the system only recognized my voice.

Imagine my sister's surprise when she got her driver's licence and borrowed my car...

Skating Zebra

When I was little, my grandparents had a car that my Grandmother would refer to as "the jalopy". I thought that a jalopy was a car company, like Ford or Chevy. Then one time when my parents were looking for a new car, I told them that we should get a Jalopy. They just looked at me funny.

Dirty Snoopy

ok when i was younger i use to belive that my dads work truck was a boy and my moms car was a girl and that they were madly in love... a beautiful romantic story lol

clueless about cars

When I was just over 4 years old my Parents, two younger brothers (2yrs. & 5 mos.) and myself were on the way to visit family in California from New Mexico. Somewhere in Arizona the engine began knocking and making a lot of noise. Dad pulled to the side of the highway and raised the hood with smoke boiling out from the engine compartment. I overheard him explain to my mother that the engine was about to "blow up". My youngest brother (5 mos.) was still in the car asleep. I became hysterical and started screaming "Get the baby! Get the baby! I couldn't understand why my parents were being so nonchalant about the baby beng in the car when it was about to explode.

kerry

I used to think that a car's exhaust was what propelled it down the road (much like a jet engine). This was a sound theory for vehicles with dual exhaust, but i was always confused as to what cars with a single tail pipe did not veer to one side.

Michael

When I was a child I believed that the indicator for the temp. of the car was actually the temp. of the key. Based on the illustration of the thermometer I thought it was a key.

Luke

I used to believe that my parents' car somehow knew where we were going, and that the the turn signals always came on to show my parents how to get there. When i would wait for my parents in the car, I'd whisper destinations to the car to see if I could trick the car into taking us somewhere more fun.

Kathy

I used to believe that cars moved by being blown along by their exhaust (that's why the exhaust pipe points out the back!)

Colin

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