I used to believe that there were little mice in the door of a car that rolled the window up and down. When I traveled in my grandparent's car and they had manual windows, i thought that the mice were tired so we had to do it ourselves. I believe it was either my dad or grandpa that told me this.

Tiff

i used to think cars with white light drove on one side of the road and cras with red light drove on the other. Until i asked my dad about it while we where in the car and he told me to look behind us....

adelina

My dad used to tell me that Carl Lewis could run as fast as a car. Therefore I used to believe, that if I placed myself next to a car that was about to start, and was able to catch up with it while it accelerated, I could be the next Olympic champion.

Julie

When we used to go through the drive-thru at any fast food place I thought by father was breaking the law when he got a diet coke. I believed he was "drinking and driving"...

Anon

For some reason I thought any 4X4 vehicle would pull a wheelie when switched into 2 wheel drive.

Richard Davies

I used to believe that whatever image was on the UHAUL truck, was what was inside. So when i saw a dinosaur on a uhaul truck, i was afraid!

Danielle

I used to believe that at stop lights, cars talked to one another and just rested. I imagined them as out of breath and spreading gossip about the other cars and discussing the traffic up the road.

I eventually asked my mother if that's what the stop lights were for. She laughed.

J. Bred.

My dad used to tell me the moon liked me and followed me. I believed him because I would always see it in the sky when we were driving about in the car at night. I caught on though, when I was about nine when I said "If the moon likes me so much why does it seem to have an unhappy face?"

Fiz

When I was in the back of a car one rainy day, one of my mother's friends remarked that the windshield wipers were hypnotizing. I had always wanted to know what it felt like to be hypnotized, so I would stare at the windshield wipers in every car I got into. Never worked. Every once in a while, I catch myself still doing it.

Nicole

I and all the kids in my family used to believe that you had to pick your feet up when driving over a bridge or they would get wet. We would also duck down when we passed an old abandoned shack so that the ghosts that lived there would not haunt us later.

Holly

I used to believe that one day the freeway across from my house would fill up with water if it rained to hard, and some of the cars would float on top, and some of them would ride on the bottom with their lights on (naturally, the people inside would breathe from the air conditioner vents.)

blnkfrnk

I used to belief that if you bought a car you needed to put it togetter yourself

Bugs

Before I could see over the dash-board to see the blinkers on the cars ahead of us , my father informed me that the garage door opener had the power to make a car move out of our lane, he would wait till the car in front turned on the blinker and then press the button, tricked mefor years........... i really wish it still worked

Nate

I used to believe that when my parents drove to my grandparents house they could do something to make the trip long or short. I would always hope they would make it short. It took a while for me to realize that the "short" trips were short because I had fallen asleep.

Anon

When I was younger I asked my Dad why he drove over the bumps in the road. He told me he learned to drive at the "Helen Keller School of Driving" it took me years to understand and in the mean time I told many people that's where my Dad learned to drive.

Anne Wilson

I thought my dad could drive with his eyes closed. He'd let the car drift to one side, and of course I'd yell for him to open his eyes so we wouldn't crash. In reality, he'd close his right eye, while leaving the left open.

Twenty years later, whenever I'm in the car with him, I have to look over to make sure his eyes are open.

karacmonkey, Minneapolis

I used to belive that if you got hit and injuried by a car on a crossing, and did not have your feet exactly on the white stripes, The insurance woldn´n cower for the expences !!

Roxy

When my son was 3, we would travel back and forth from Oklahoma to relatives in Arkansas in the U.S. We'd use a toll road along the way. Every time we'd approach the toll booth, my son would hold up his feet so he could "Pay a toe." We'd humor him of course by pretending to grab one of his toes. He's nine now, and we're not traveling that toll road anymore. He might just be writing his own "I used to believe" in a few years! I don't think we've ever actually corrected him on this.

toe-grabbing mom

We used to vacation by motorhome a lot and I always thought that on those long cross country trips that "cruise control" meant that my dad turned this on at night so he could go lay down to sleep. I always wondered how the motorhome knew there was a curve coming up? and a McDonalds at the next exit!!!

Am

My daughter was not quite three when I had a car accident. Apparently the one thing that stuck in her mind was that I hadn't been *(uncharacteristically mind you) been wearing my seat belt. She became convinced that if you didn't wear a seat belt you'd crash!

Ladybug2535