When I was a kid I thought that the handbrake would stop the car dead in it's tracks no matter what, and whenever I saw a car skid into something on TV I'd say "He shoulda used the emergency brake..."
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon