When I was about 4 years old, I used to believe that when my Dad and I went to a gas station to fill the car up with more gas, the car could go faster again.

Melody

I used to believe that you had to pay for gasoline with a credit card only. I didn't think that you could pay cash for gas at the gas station.

Steven

I used to think that 'Self Drive Hire' was a fantastic idea. A van that could drive itself. How good is that???

Confused

I was a kid when the FIRST Herbie movies came out, and Wonderbug was on TV. One day after church, someone was using the PA system on their CB in the parking lot. So I realized that some cars could, in fact, be alive and talk. Every Sunday while waiting on the adults, I would go around to different cars and say "hello," hoping one of them would talk back!

ReluctantFiend

I used to believe that the headrests in cars were made out of ET's head.

Kae

I used to believe that when we drove in the car the car would not move and everything else would. I got sick from spinning so if everything else moved the earth would spin so I was afrid that I would get sick everyday because people where driving on the road. When I did get sick I would always shout "It's all those stupid cars fault!!!"

Jeff

When I was really young, I used to play with gear shift when the car wasn't running. To make me stop, my mom told me that if I played with it, the car would implode. I believed it till I was 12!

Tia

I used to think that the streetlights propelled cars along the highway at night. I saw the refracted light in the glass and thought they were rays of light that somehow pushed the car. I'm not sure how I thought we got around during the day.

Anon

when I was a small child, I would while away long car journeys on rainy days by wondering what made the windscreen wipers move.
When I was about 5 or 6, it suddenly occurred to me that of course it was a ghost was sitting on the bonnet, + as my parents didn't seem concerned, it must have been a freind of theirs when it was alive.
This thought terrified me so much that I had to close my eyes every time the wipers moved.

Nin

My mom used to drive us over a ramp called Dead Man's Curve and it terrified me. I thought that when we drove over it we were going to die. My mom would call out "We're going over Dead Man's Curve!" without realizing that I was scared out of my mind.

Traumatized

I used to believe that only women drove cars and only men drove trucks. When I saw a man driving a car, I thought he was a sissy.

Pam H.

At my elementary school, they called the buses by a color. My bus was "blue bus." Before I actually saw it, I thought that my bus would actually be blue. On my first day of school, I realized that all buses were yellow.

Anon

I remember my best friend and I used to always hold our breath going over the bridge that's over the river close to our home, in case we fell in. I'm not sure if we really believed it or not, but I remember doing it every time.

DeanDean

This is actually my college roommates belief.

You know how wheels on cars sometimes look like they are going backwards when the car is going fast? Well, her father told her that they really were going backwards, because everyone knows that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Well, when she was 16, she was out with friends, and someone mentioned how funny it was that wheels look like they go backwards, and she proceeded to enlighten them with her father's explanation, that she had believed for all those years. :o)

Kendra's roomie

i used to believe that electric cars had to be plugged in to outlet to work. I was wondering why i never saw any cars with really long cords trailing behind them!

turd is a phunnie word

When I was little and me and my family would be in the car and we would go under an overpass or bridge I would duck my head because my friends told me that if you didnt your head would get cut off!

Melissa

I used to think you could be arrested just for driving 5 mph over the speed limit. My dad did this all the time, and I was terrified and begged him not to.

Brandon Campbell

A friend told me and a few other friends the other day that her mom had told her when she was little that if she inhaled petrol fumes she would die, so every time her parents went into a gas station, my friend would hold her breath!

Anon

I used to think that when a car would drive on grass the battery would die. Cars that breakdown are for the most part on the side of the road. I used to get scared when my dad drove near grass.

Nicole