When my dad was driving along a road and beeped the horn on the car for no apparent reason, he used to tell me he did it because there was a fly on the road and he didn't want to run it over! I must have been about 8 before I realised he was taking the p**s..!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!— Deb
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav