My boyfriend's mother told him and his sisters that their car would not start if they didn't have tieir seatbelts on.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- If I had bad gas I would sometimes start to run as I farted to escape the smell. It didn't always work.— Sammy
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky