My Uncle Ernie told me that he had an ejector seat in his car (the button for it was supposedly under the gear stick knob) and that if I mis-behaved, he'd eject me. This kind of worked against him though - I played up on purpose as getting ejected sounded like fun :)
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that, in a deep and profound kind of way, the words "door knob" rhymed with "said so". — Katie
- My wife used to believe that the purpose of the stick shift in her Dad's car was to stir the gas.— Curt
- 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
- I used to believe that if i behaved badly i would be taken away in a yellow van.— Mattio
- i used to believe that the rag and bone man would come and take me away if i wasn't well behaved— ambrosez
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon