My mom would tell us kids to press our hands on the roof of the car as we passed under a bridge. This was to hold up the bridge so it would not fall on us as we passed under it.
love you Mom :)
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- Whenever I was upstairs on a bus, I didn't believe that it would fit under the bridge so I used to duck. — Dave, Lancashire
- I used to believe that George Washington died and turned into a bridge.— lara dean
- I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington— Shayne
- I used to believe that every one that
passed away would come and visit me.
No matter if I knew them or not!— Ashley S. (Knoxville , TN) - i thought it was a law that bus drivers had to wave to each other when they passed— ande
- I used to think that after you passed an off-ramp while driving on the freeeway, it disappeared.— Anonymous