One day I was asking someone what all the buttons on a car did. I was told that the button I now know as the "Rear Defrost" was a self destruct button and if pushed, the car would blow up in about 10 seconds. I found out MANY years later the truth, only because I never dared to push it!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann