When I was younger, I used to lightly scratch the Defrosting lines on the back of the car when I was bored. My dad told me not to scratch them because if I broke one, the car would blow up.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- when i was younger i used to believe that if i step on the lines of the tiles i would die — arouf gangsta