I used to pretend on trips that the car was being followed by a giant rat, who would grow huge and round by eating giant blocks of "freeze dried tubifex worms", which is what we would feed my pet newts and frogs. After eating enough of these blocks, the rat would start rolling after the car like a ball and his tail would become a fuse, turning him into a bomb.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that dried prunes were giant rasins.— Jacquyln
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California