I heard that my father's car had been stuck (in traffic) on the freeway. For years, as a child, I thought that if the car drove over the "cat's eyes" or "white bumps" that separate lanes, that your tires might stick to them - holding you still on the road.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that a traffic jam was wen cars got stuck in jam!Anon
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- When I was a child I used to belive that my father had forever been a 40 years old man.— Nicola
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones