I used to believe my dad totalled our Opal stationwagon using a sledgehammer. Actually, he'd wrecked it in an accident, and my mom had taken a picture of him next to it, holding a sledgehammer -- but since he had such a temper, I thought he'd just gotten mad at the car!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think the gemstone opal was like opal fruits and wanted to eat one.Anon
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- the if you swallowed a fly by accident that you would then grow an appetite for dirt.— sarah
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- When I first saw a picture of the human anatomy, I thought the brain was really snot.Anon