Up until I was about 10, in my mom's car as she was backing up out of our driveway, I never noticed she used the handle to put the car in reverse. I always thought the car knew what she was thinking, and she would think "go backwards" and the car would.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think my priest was a bit foolish for never having noticed that Dog is God written backwards— anticap
- When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel
- I used to believe that aeroplanes could reverse when they are flying. Anon
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I used to believe the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G. I never understood why.— Nancy