When my sister was very small she used to think that the cats eyes in the road were actually little lights and that there was a little man who ran along in front of the car turning them on and another man who ran behind truning them off...classic!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- that blackouts were caused by evil monkey's turning off all the lights.— key
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul