On one of the meters on my dad's car, one of the sides had the word "brake". I asked my dad what would happen if the arrow went to it, so he jokingly told me the car would break. So, I spent most of my car rides as a child worriedly watching to make sure the arrow never went to "brake".
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon
- I used to believe that the song "Another one bites the dust" was "Another one rides the bus"— Emmy