When I was young and tried to sleep in the backseat of my parents car while driving down the highway, my parents would wait until I was dozing off and say excitedly to each other 'Look! Look at that herd of elephants! There must be 100 of them!" As dopey as I was even I knew that couldn't be [living in Canada] but they were persistant. I had to get up and look. They were twisted at times.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe, driving in front of all the other cars on the highway, Knight Rider was leading the pack.— Michael Kolassa
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I couldn't wait to turn 20 so I could go through the Roaring 20's and be a flapper like my Grandma.— Susan Bonnell