When our kids were little, I used to drive an old Rover 2600 that had a low-oil warning light on the dashboard. This thing was huge for what it was, about the size of an adult man's thumb nail. The electrics in that old car were pretty bad, and this light stayed half-on all the time in a soft ruddy glow.
We were all returning home one evening and this glow was just becoming visible in the gathering gloom, and one of the kids asked what it was.
Of course, we told them it was the Sunset Meter that told us it was getting dark enough to put the main lights on...
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- my best friend was so pale i thought she could glow in the dark— tattiebird
- i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik
- I believed that if I ate Ready Brek, I'd glow like in the TV ad. — Why Aren't I Glowing?
- I used to believe that after eating Ready Brek I would glow, but that only adults could see it.— michelle
- I used to believe that Moon is the kid of Sun, because it has less light and Moon smiles with kids. — Syed Arbab Ahmed
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley