when i was young i used to believe that the 'L' plate on the car meant it was a 'lady' driver, not a 'learner' driver. mainly becuase my Dad kept on shouting at them, and he also shouted at female drivers. go figure!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I always used to think that Ozzy Osbourne was a racing driver!
Anon - I used to believe that a "ghost-driver" was a car driving with a white sheet over it.— Nynke
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- I used to think that Chris de burgh song Lady in red was Lady in Bread
— Omega-R-Fox