My evil babysitter Patti left me in her car (a green Vega, of course) so she could go shopping. Before she left, she told me not to touch what I later learned to be an emergency brake, because if I did, the car would blow up. It seemed perfectly logical that there would be a lever to pull to make a car blow up, since I had seen so many cars blow up on TV. To this day, I can't use the emergency brake without feeling a twinge of trepidation.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- i used to believe that if you were a kid and u turned the radio on in your car then the car would blow up— steph
- i used to believe that when you had cramps your appendix would blow up.— Avery