I used to believe that car windscreens knew when it was raining and they were getting wet; and so the windscreens turned the wipers on and off, and regulated the speed of them automatically. Didn't occur to me that the driver had anything to do with that part.
I think I was a bit ahead of my time.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if it was raining, it was raining all over the world at the same time!— stuart bradley
- I used to believe that north was always straight ahead. I could never face south, but I knew it was behind me!— Bruces
- I used to believe if it was raining in the town I lived in then it was raining everywhere in the world — Pablo
- When I was young I thought that if it was raining here it was raining everywhere. — Dustin
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon