I used to believe that if you went near a car's exhaust fumes your legs would get stuck together. It only occured to me that this was not actually the case when I was about 16 and finally came to really thinking about it!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- That all clouds were made by aeroplane exhaust fumes— diyjoe.com
- I used to believe that the exhaust fumes coming from a car were actually what pushed it forward like a rocket — rocket car
- I used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.— BadDeal
- I used to believe clouds were formed by jets and their exhaust. — Olivia
- I used to believe that cars were propelled by their exhaust like some kind of rocket.Anon
- I used to believe that car exhaust pipes were what propelled cars, instead of the engines.— Thomas Johnston