I used to believe that turn signals started flashing because the car already knew when and where you wanted to turn. So I asked my Great Grandpa how it worked and he told me. And I was really upset because I thought this for a long time

Anon

I used to think that the turn signal told my mom where to go.

Jenna

I used to believe that the turn signal in your car would automatically go on whenever you were getting ready to turn. I couldn't figure out how the car knew you were about to turn. I finally concluded that you had to wave your hand to the side of the steering wheel to tell the car that you were going to turn, so it could turn on the little clicker thing. It wasn't until many years later that I realized that when someone was "waving" their hand beside the steering wheel, they were turning on the turn signal!

Jessica

When I was little I used to think the turn signals were the car giving you directions I always wondered how the car knew where we were going.
Funny how we have gps devices now that do this looks like I was a very forward thinking kid.

Anon

When I was little, I would observe the turn signals on the dash while my parents were driving, and used to wonder how the car somehow knew which direction we were going to turn! It took me a while to realize they pulled the lever on the other side of the steering wheel.

Sara

I read the one about car signals and laughed b/c all the people there said they figured it out at five or six. Well, I never got to sit is the front until I was around 12, so I didn't pay much attention to the signals. So I was sitting in the front but I was still confused for a few months. I honest to god thought the car was psychic.

Mandy

When I was about 6 I used to get confused whenever cars indicated. I always used to wonder how the car knew where we were going!

ProudHobbit

When I was in preschool I thought that the car knew where you were going. I never knew that you had to turn on the blinker!!!

Tori-Anne Carlson

When I was about 5, I actually realized there were turn signals in cars. Some how, whenever my mom was going to turn, those lights would start to flash. I was 100% positive the car was reading her mind. I would even try to confuse the car by thinking of going in the oppisite direction.

Eli

When my mother turned on a turn signal, a little green arrow would flash on her display. I thought my car was smart and was telling my mother what direction to turn in.

Anon

When I was a kid we use to travel to my grandmothers house and we had to get on the interstate. well when we got off the interstate my mother would forget to turn off the turn signal in her car and it would beep to remind her. But she told me that the car knew that we were almost there and thats why it beeped. Its sad because I believed her until I was like 13 years old.

Kristina

I used to think that the green blinkers in the car points to the direction you have to go to get to your destination, LOL

Alex

When I was little, I knew that blinkers told the other cars that you were going to turn, but I didn't know exactly how. Of course, I couldn't see the turn lights from inside the car,so I eventually came to the conclusion that other cars heard the little clicking noise that they make when you turned your blinkers on, and that's how they knew.

Anon

I used to believe that blinkers helped the driver turn easier.

Blinking Idiot

I used to think that when people turned the turen signal on (on your car) that that would make the car turn

tracy

When I was 4, i used to think that little blinker thing in cars that told the other people you were turning whould take you were ever you say. Like sat you say "home" it would take u there. I used to say Mcdonalds right befor I got in the car. But It never tok me. :(

MEAN BLINKER NEVER TOOM ME TO McDONALDS

i never knew when i was a kid that it was my parents who turned the blinker on in the car--i thought the car magically knew where you were going and the blinker was telling your parents how to get there. one day i asked my dad how the car knew where he was going and he told me he was just turning it on.

Anon

when i was like 8 i thought that the direction arrows in cars knew what way you were turning, and i would get so confused.

directions ?

I used to believe that when you were in a car, the indicators were actually controlled by the car. So that would mean, if you said where you wanted to go, the car would take you there! HOW WEIRD AM I?

Anon

I used to believe the car somehow 'knew' which way you would turn at a stop. I didn't know there was a signal indicator beside the wheel, and my mother didn't bother to tell me otherwise!

Julia