I used to believe that there was a little man who lived under the hood of the car. My dad told me he was who made the windshield wipers work, the lights go on, etc.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I thought that when the lights went out, putting a candle behind the tv would make it work :)— Ricky
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray