My dad used to tell me that if I stuck my arm out the car window, it would get chopped off. I certainly kept my arm inside after that, with horrible visions of someone in a passing car holding a machete out their window for the sole purpose of cutting off people's arms.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- My mom used to tell us kids that if you put your arm out of the car window,that it would fall off.— Kathy G.
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn