When I was 4 or 5, my uncle told me that a squirrel lived in his car engine and ran in a squirrel cage to make the car move. He told me to look for it in the glove box. When I opened the glove box, my uncle would act surprised and say "It just ran out, did you see it?" but I never did.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- My dad told me SPAM was made of Squirrel, Possum, and Mice YUM YUM — Suzanne
- My uncle used to believe that he would grow up to be a fire engine or a tiger.
If only...— Josh Y. - I used to believe that weasels routinely nested in the glove compartments of cars.— Ven
- When I was little I used to think that my uncle lived in a bus shelter.— tigga
- my uncle was a doctor, so when he told me his vw could fly, i believed.— boodles
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred