When I was about four, my mom would snap her fingers, and turn on the windshield wipers and then she'd snap her fingers again and turned them off, and claimed she was magic. I actually believed her!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to think the "Smack my Bitch Up" song by Prodigy was "Snap my picture"..like Snap my pic-cha!
Anon - when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon
- I thought your fingers would grow back if they got cut off— Nate
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- i used to believe that polishing your nails also consisted of painting your fingers. Anon
- When I was a kid, I slept with my fists balled up because I thought if I didn't, E.T. would eat my fingers. — Brian