I used to believe that the way they paint the lines on the road was to have 2 men (one with white paint, the other with yellow) hanging upside-down from thier knees on the back of a truck. I still think that's a better way than with machinery.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I used to believe that the solid double yellow lines on highways were the motorcycle lane.— jeech