When I was little I asked my mother what the little bumps (the reflectors) in the middle of the road were for, she replied that it was there so blind people knew they were in their lane.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- I used to think the reflectors in the middle of roads were pieces of cheese!Anon
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to think that the Eagle's song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Pike in the Bass Lane."— Quilla
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina