When I was really young, I used to play with gear shift when the car wasn't running. To make me stop, my mom told me that if I played with it, the car would implode. I believed it till I was 12!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.
- When i was 4 i used to belive my dad was nocternal because he used to do a night shift!— Alien 5247