transport - I Used To Believe

Choose one of the following categories: aeroplanes, buses, cars, road signs, traffic lights, trains,or view the best beliefs in this section as voted by visitors. Here are the ten most recently added beliefs:

When we are young we don't understand how many things work. I thought cars were operated by magnetic strips under the road like on a toy car track. I was very confused on how the car knew where to go.

Anon

A friend of mine told me that when she was little, she thought that the signs that say "no dumping" meant that people were not allowed to "take a dump" at that particular location. She wondered why people would want to take a dump outside in the first place.

Sara

I used to believe that Disney World was up in the sky because you have to take an airplane to get there.

lauren

I used to believe that cars were super intelligent and always knew which way my parents were going to turn and set the blinkers on the correct side for them.

Sam Eum

I used to think that wherever you were, north was always directly in front of you. I never got why anyone had trouble with directions. North was to the front, south to the back, east to right, and west to the left. Then I discovered compasses.

Nevereatsoggywaffles

When I was little, I believed that airplanes that had a trail of clouds behind them were actually space ships on their way up into space.

Liz

When I was a real little kid, I knew directions everywhere, so one day when my mom was driving (I was in the backseat) and stopped at a stoplight I commented about how the people who worked the stoplights never got to go home. My mom then laughed and told me that machines worked the stoplights. I was terrified! I told my mom they could make us crash and that people could control it better! Which, really, isn't true at all.

Sarahtops

We didn't have a car when I was a child, hardly anyone did. When an Uncle took my Dad & I to Butlin's for our holidays, I saw a sign that said, 'Dual Carriageway Ahead'
After driving on for ages, I just couldn't understand why I had not seen this village called 'Dual Carriageway'!

John

When I was young, I thought that when you turn the blinkers on in the car, it made the car turn.

Cassidy

I thought that the reason there was glass over the instrument panel (battery gauge, fuel, etc.) to prevent people from manually grabbing the speedometer needle and jamming it well over 100 mph - because accelerating that quickly was almost certainly illegal.

andrew