When I was 6, my grandpa used to let me sit on his lap and steer the car on the highway. He had giant cadillac with an enormous hood ornament. He told me that in order to keep the car on the road I had to keep the hood ornament lined up with the solid line on the right side of the lane. It actually worked pretty well (exits aside). I couldn't figure out how my mom managed to keep her Volkswagen slugbug on the road.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I used to believe that the solid double yellow lines on highways were the motorcycle lane.— jeech
- Anyone else think that Emergency Exits were special exits for some celebrity called 'Emer Gency' to use?— Mark Yardley
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane