My sister told me that on certain days, you could buy a real car from a vending machine for six dollars.

I asked how they fit them all in there, but she refused to explain any further.

Laurie

driving back from a trip to disney world when i was around 5 years old, my dad turned on the windshield wipers to wash the windshield, and when the washer fluid sprayed onto the window I asked where that water came from. My mom told me that Dumbo was peeing on the car. I totally believed her and was so amazed that he was following US home.

jEn

When i was younger, I am now a modest 22, i was told that the lines on the rear window of a car where there so you could judge the gradient of the hill you were driving up, how? Who's knows, but it seemed like a rational explanation, so i believed it, and when someone asked me what they were i would share my wordly knowledge, thinking i was dead smart and i did this until i was 18!!!!!!! It was only when i bought my own car and when i tried to be a big head on cars in the garage i was corrected by the salesmen and told there were actually to heat up the back window - ummmmmm!

Carly - I lead a sheltered life, me!

When I was little my dad used to drive this really old car and when he pressed the accelerator it made a loud noise from the exaust. I figured that if more noise comes from the exaust when you go faster, it must be the air coming out of the exaust that pushes the car along. It really screwed my head up when he reversed because there was no exaust at the front.
BOOYAH!
(I believed that I would also invent a 2 exausted car)

tom

When I was little, I overheard someone saying that their car had an air bag so it would be dangerous for little kids to sit in the front. I ran to the person's car and saw a plastic bag full of air inside it. For a few months after that I was scared of plastic bags!

Anon

Until I was about 11 I never used to think that cars had pedals, and I thought that you would choose how fast you wanted to go using the gearstick and stop using the handbrake. And until the first time I ever drove a car, I never knew about the clutch pedal - I used to think that you'd just put the car straight into whatever gear you wanted. I was a strange child.

Rowan

When I was about 6 I asked my mom what side of the road we were driving on. She said the right side and I thought that everyone in the world had their own side of the road to drive on!! Like a few people would drive on the right side and some would have to drive on the left side!!

Kenzie

Whenever we'd go on a long car ride at night it would confuse me as to why all the cars going in the same direction as us had red lights, and the ones going the opposite direction had white lights. I spent a long time trying to figure out why... then I decided that you must have to drive on a different road depending on what color lights your car has.

sandra

When I was little, I would ride in the car with my mom. Well, on the highway I would see those 18-wheelers and I always told her that seing those meant we were on the highway!

Sara

I used to think that if you didn't put on your seatbelt, you WOULD crash.

Mer

I thought that when you went over a speedbumb it was a dead person who had been hit by a car!

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

I used to believe that the handles that help people in and out of cars were actually "pregnancy handles" for women who were in labor to clutch during their ride to the hospital.

My dad lied to me

When I was little we had a big Buick Riviera with power seats. My dad told me that if I put my feet under the seat when he moved it, my feet would turn into hamburger. I kept my feet out of there!

Anon

When I was very little I used to believe that the big yellow-colored machinery vehicles (bulldozers, back-hoes, etc) were so big that they took up both lanes in the road (all 4 if we were on a big highway) and all the cars that wanted to go through would have to drive under them. I was terrified of this because I thought that they were so low to the ground that if your car was too tall it would get crushed. This also explained why the traffic got slower near construction sites: because the other people were terrified of getting crushed by driving under the machines, so they would be forced to just follow behind these machines which I thought could only go up to about 5 miles per hour.
You can imagine my relief when there was one on the road ahead of us and we just drove past it in the other lane.

Anon

I thought an automatic car (i.e. automatic transmission) meant the car drove itself just like "Herbie" in the Walt Disney films. I was constantly on the look out for one of these "automatic cars".

Nick Moore

i use to belive that cars are not heavy to carry , because when i was 4, my dad bought a brand new car, i thought they carried it home because the wheels might get dirty.

Anon

I used to belive that only men drove trucks and women drove cars. Then, one day I saw a woman in an SUV and I was really confused.

Hi

I used to believe that handicapped parking places were for only wheelchairs and not cars. So I was sad for the old people because since wheel chairs had no doors or locks, someone would steal them. And I also wondered how would they walk all the way to the store if they left their wheelchair... I beleived this until I was 10... Weird kid I am right?

Damian