i remember when i was 3 or 4 i hated going into carwashes. i thought the water would flood the car and make it explode, leaving the big brushes (i thought they were alive at the time) to kill you!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon
- When I was little, I thought that bug spray would make bugs explode and disappear. Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate rice and water and jumped up and down you would explode. Thanks Dad.— Nina
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- My brother used to think that the brushes at automatic car washes were Sulley from Monsters Inc. — RJ