When I was younger and I was traveling in the car I liked to stick my hand out of the window and feel the air push on it. My father told me that if I did that then a man on a motorbike would ride past and chop my hand off with an axe. And I haven't done it since.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- I used to believe that I could actually cut the clouds with my hand.Anon
- I used to believe that if you put your hand in a venus fly trap it would eat it.Anon