When I was about 8 years old I thought that shifting gears in a car was something you could do from time to time when you feel like it. Like eating candy or something because I didn´t get it how it was related to the speed you drive at.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again