When I was little, my grandparents had a car that my Grandmother would refer to as "the jalopy". I thought that a jalopy was a car company, like Ford or Chevy. Then one time when my parents were looking for a new car, I told them that we should get a Jalopy. They just looked at me funny.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- I thought that the insurance company Aflac was owned by Ben AffleckAnon
- When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf