My dad used to have one of those shop lights that is a single bulb inside a little orange cage, on the end of a long orange cord. He called it a "trouble light" and I thought that he would plug it into the car somewhere, and if it lit up, that meant there was trouble.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- In "God Bless America" I thought it was "With the light from a bulb" instead of "from above."— Carol
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- that red and orange were different shades of the same color— Larry