We were having new tyres put on our car, when our four year old son pointed to a pile of worn out tyres awaiting their fate, and asked, "Mum what are all those sick and tireds for?"
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I used to believe my middle name was spelled "Worn" it is "Warren"— Bart
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier