MY mom woudl always tell us kids "don't hang your hands out of the car when I'm driving or they will get chopped off"
I grew up thinking there were really creepy people who drove around incars with knives chopping off little kid hands just for kicks.
It never dawned on me until I was an adult that my mom meant that it would happen if she got in an accident.
My brother, it turns out, believed the same thing his whole childhood as well.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when it rained,it meant God was washing his hands Anon
- I grew up believing meerkats have human hands because I learned about meerkats from The Lion King.Anon
- 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 kid I thought babies where made when people hold hands and kissed nude...— Ryan
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon