I bought my first car (used) and right away it broke down. I said "It's a good thing I have car insurance". My mom explained that car insurance only pays for accidents. I was very shocked that I had to pay for the repairs myself. How dumb was I.
A childhood belief about cars

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- I thought that the insurance company Aflac was owned by Ben AffleckAnon
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c