I'm not sure how old I was when I realized that, contrary to my Mother's stories, it is physically possible to start a car even when your seat belt isn't buckled.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- That if you didn't have your seat belt buckled up when the car was in motion, it would crash.— Dave Smith
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- I used to believe that people only grew, physically and in age, on their birthday. — Aretia
- When a soldiers went AWOL in the movies, I thought they physically climbed over "A Wall".— D Rumsfeld
- I thought the "physically fit" lines in the song "I Like to Move It" were "fizzy coloured feet".Anon
- I used to believe that the Mormon Temple in Washington DC was Disney World. It sure does from the belt way.— William Scheren