When I was little I heard my mom and her friends talking about "driving stick" shift but I didn't know what that was, so I imagined them balancing on walking sticks and hopping along.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- My wife used to believe that the purpose of the stick shift in her Dad's car was to stir the gas.— Curt
- I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.
- When i was 4 i used to belive my dad was nocternal because he used to do a night shift!— Alien 5247
- i used to think that the "graveyard shift" meant that they actually had to go out and dig graves. Anon
- i used to think the song "walking in a winter wonderland" was "walking in a womens underwear"— stephen s