My father always drove a truck, and my mother a car. So naturally I believed that only men could drive trucks, and women could drive cars. Then one day my moms car wouldn't start, so she drove the truck to the grocery store. Of course I had to ask her if it was legal.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that self drive cars actually drove themselves!Anon
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- When I was little I used to believe that cars drove themselves.Anon