When I was about five, my little brother and I rode in my Granddad's car with him. He told us that he had a "magical car" and whenever we said, "Windows, open/close!" or "Doors, lock/unlock!" When we did, the doors and windows would do just that! MAGICAL! I believed this for years and years until my mother got a car with power windows and power locks. Even for a year or two after that, it took a little while for me to figure out that Granddad's car was NOT magic.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that my father always told us to close the doors to keep the giraffes out ... terrifying— lee
- when i was 6 i used to believe that birds were magical creatures and used magic to fly— Serriu
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- That when u opened all the windows on just one side of the car the wind would make it tip over.— Schmackalie
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I used to belive that Jack Frost was a real man! and that he came and painted frost on the windows at night.— Tom