I used to be terrified of those automatic car washes at gas stations... for some reason all the machinery going around the car and the loud noises made me just FREAK OUT, I thought it was alive or something
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My brother used to think that the brushes at automatic car washes were Sulley from Monsters Inc. — RJ
- I used to believe that the foam that sometimes washes up on the beach was shark saliva... — Tiffany
- I used to think that a gherkin was some kind of piece of machinery. I wonder where I got THAT from...— Some Idiot
- When my brother was little he heard the song "Le Freak" by Chic (Ahhh, freak out!) like this: Ahhh, free cow!Anon
- I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films— Stano
- I used to think that the automatic tolets were controled by people who were looking at you through a camara. — jack irons