our father would tell us that the wind shield wipers on his early '80s vw rabbit were in fact turbo wipers, serving the purpose of wiping air out of the way so the car could travel faster. that explanation paired with well timed hits on the accelerator made the notion quite believable to my brother and i.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray
- My brother thought the trees made the wind...logical.— peter
- I used to belive that my pet rabbit was the easter rabbit and he owned egg land.— Andrew B
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I am Catholic. I used to believe that the Father presenting the Mass was in fact God himself.— Lindsey
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin