when we went on long trips in the car and would bother my mom by saying , are we there yet, she would say , See the black stuff in the road? that is where Indians would scalp little kids who were not being good. Now shut up.
The thick black lines was just tar from paving the cracks in the road. It sure shut us up though.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- I thought a highwayman was just someone who helps pave the road and stuff like that— Nate
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby