I grew up not far from the local train tracks. My friends and I would lay on the slope leading up to the tracks and would count the cars as they went by. I remember going home one day and asking my Grandmother where Capa City was. It was written on all of the box cars. We got out the altas and searched, but found nothing.
Not long after that, we got stuck in the car at the RR crossing. When the box cars starting rolling by, I showed her where it said they were all from Capa City.
She began to laugh so hard, she had to turn around to go home and change her pants.
What I was reading as Capa City, was actually "capacity"...as in maximum volume.....Ooooooohhhh!
Hey, I was 7!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I thought small cars grew up to become big cars— carhugger
- I used to belive that all TV shows were taped in my home city, thats why they were shown here.Anon
- I thought the no overtaking sign meant that red cars cannot drive by black cars.— Helen
- I used to believe, driving in front of all the other cars on the highway, Knight Rider was leading the pack.— Michael Kolassa
- I used to believe that God was the one playing "cars" with our cars. Sounds weird hey?— Roe
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS