When I was 5 or 6, I thought that a car wash was a car wish and that if you drove your car in you could wish for whatever car you wanted. I could never figure out why my parents didn't take advantage of this great invention! I wish I could now!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I used to think Hannah Barbera was one woman...not two men. I didn't figure it out until I was about 15!— minkie
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak