Our children believe there are alligators on the Interstates and Highways, because every time we pass a piece of rubber on the road from a retread, my husband hollars "road gator", and all the kids start looking around.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!— Deb
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin