When I was a kid I thought that hills in the road were made by construction workers stacking up building blocks and then paving over them.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose. — sm
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- I thought hills were dragons sleeping under the grassAnon
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon