when I was a small child, I would while away long car journeys on rainy days by wondering what made the windscreen wipers move.
When I was about 5 or 6, it suddenly occurred to me that of course it was a ghost was sitting on the bonnet, + as my parents didn't seem concerned, it must have been a freind of theirs when it was alive.
This thought terrified me so much that I had to close my eyes every time the wipers moved.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that when adults mentioned horsepower that there were Horses under the bonnet— Jonathan
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- I used to believe that cars were alive and their headlights were eyes.— Wiley
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny