I used to believe that for the car to go in reverse, my dad just had to put his right arm on the passenger seat and look over his right shoulder. The car took its cue from my dad and knew to go backwards!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that aeroplanes could reverse when they are flying. Anon
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel
- I used to think that the shoulder blades were actually "back breasts".— Kdees
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.