I and all the kids in my family used to believe that you had to pick your feet up when driving over a bridge or they would get wet. We would also duck down when we passed an old abandoned shack so that the ghosts that lived there would not haunt us later.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- I used to think that after you passed an off-ramp while driving on the freeeway, it disappeared.— Anonymous
- i thought that "aromatic" duck was actually "asthmatic" duck.
poor thing...— rachael - I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.
— emily - My kids believe if they pick their nose their butts will fall off!— wendy
- My wife used to tell our kids that if you pick your nose your brains would fall out— grampy