During a family vacation out west (New York to California), my mother was very nervous driving through St. Louis and hitting the right Interstate exit, so in order to get us kids to shut up, she said "You better be quiet because if I make the wrong turn, we're going to Canada!" This terrified me because I thought there was some horrible last-chance exit in St. Louis which would irrevocably commit you to going to Canada -- yes, if you took this exit you'd go through the whole United States with NO CHANCE to get off the road before hitting the Canadian border... I believed this for a couple of years!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.— A A RENN
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- i used to believe the sound from a piano came from the keys hitting a stuff called "sploosh"{wierd, huh?}.— exploding buttox
- The buckinghams song "kind of a drag", i always thought they were singing, "Canada Dry"— bobbybobby