..that every boy/man had to have a traffic accident. And that it happened exactly one time in life. We lived with my mother's family and both her brothers had had theirs. So, every night I would pray that tommorow I would get done and over with *my accident*, and that it wouldnt be too scary!

Ahsan

When I was a kid I thought that if you got run over by a transport truck it wouldn't hurt because the wheels were just filled with air. I guess I had no concept of weight back then.

Patrick

i used to believe that electric cars had to stay plugged in to a wall socket all the time even when you are driving. i wondered how they could have a long enough cord to go on vacations!!!

reh

I use to believe that when you reached the end of the road in front of you when you were driving, that that was the end of the world. Somehow we never drove that far.

Ryan NY

I used to believe that the exhaust fumes coming from a car were actually what pushed it forward like a rocket

rocket car

When I was little my mom told me to look "up and down" before crossing the street. So, I would look up at the sky and down at the ground and THEN look left and right fo any cars! LOL!

Anne Marie

For a couple years as a little kid, I believed that in certain cars you would peddle like a bicycle to move it because my aunt told me that the car had peddles! I always wondered how she got up the steep hills so easily.

Jacob

I used to believe that the "cruise control" button in cars meant that the car could drive/maneauver itself.

Myriam

When I first encountered a childproof lock on a car door, I thought it could somehow detect how old you were when you tried to open it, and that it would not open if you were below a certain age.

Alan, Sheffield

my first boyfriend tld me that the VW Beetle only had two pedals - the clutch pedal and the accelerator/brake pedal that you had to kick from side-to-side in order to use each function.

K@te

I used to believe that the motorway had a special device underneath it that made cars go faster. Now that I think about it, the device was clockwork and had many flashing red lights.

Will

I was around six when I asked my father what why some cars had GB on the back. He informed me that it was the next stage after being a Learner driver and it meant 'Getting Better'. Seemed reasonable to me.

TD

I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".

Ray

I was told that rumble strips at the side of the road were initially put there as a test to see if it would help the blind drive

tulips

once, when riding in the car with an aunt, I asked her if we could turn up
the air condiioner. she told me no, because if the air conditioner blew too long on
one part of your body it would freeze. I really believed this until I was close to 20!
I thought that there was some chemical or something that came from the vents!

Tara

when i was young after watching the Flintstones i used to believe that monkeys ran in our tires to make the car work.

Becky

I'm from Israel, and in Hebrew the word 'traffic jam' is the same as a cork. And I always believed that traffic jams are caused because there's a cork in the middle of the street (like from a coke bottle) that somebody left and all the other cars are just trying to avoid

Anon

When my brother and I were young, my mom told us there was a bridge to Hawaii. My brother was fascinated with this. I played it off like I knew better, but I secretly wondered how much gas it would take to get to Hawaii.

Wade

When I was very small, I used to have terrifying dreams about being stuck in a car in the middle of a large drawbridge as it opened. I still do on occasion, and I don't like traveling over large bridges of any kind (sometimes the dreams are about bridges that I know are not drawbridges in real life.) I sometimes wonder whether I am destined to die in a drawbridge accident.

JCS

My mom would tell us kids to press our hands on the roof of the car as we passed under a bridge. This was to hold up the bridge so it would not fall on us as we passed under it.

love you Mom :)

PJ