I used to believe that when you drove past other cars at night, you had to count them with a number ticker thing - that was the only explanation I had for the clicking noise our car made when we passed an oncoming car. The noise was of course my father dimming his headlights so that he wouldn't blind other drivers.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha
- I used to believe that cars were alive and their headlights were eyes.— Wiley
- i thought it was a law that bus drivers had to wave to each other when they passed— ande