When I was around five years old, while my mother was driving, she would tell me not to stick my hands and arms out of the car while she was driving, because they would get chopped off. So I thought people in other cars carried axes and the minute I stuck out my arm, it would be actually chopped off with an axe.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "no outlet" sign on roads was a warning to people driving electric cars.— c
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA
- when i was younger i used to think no-one was driving cars and it was only my family who were allowed to...— Lucie x
- I used to think that serial killers chopped their victims up into little pieces and eat them with their cerealAnon