I used to think that gas was drilled like oil. "How lucky that two gas stations across the street found a well!" My 5-year old brain thought.
When I was 7 or so, I finally saw a tanker truck unloading gas at a station. I asked my dad about this strange occurrence...who informed me that gas stations had underground storage tanks. Mind Blown!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think Alsatian dogs were called 'Old Stations'.— Jen
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to believe that I could change street lights with my mindAnon
- I similarly thought that "Proud Mary" included the lyrics "pumped a lot of tanks down in New Orleans."— Larry
- few years ago, finally I found out that asparagus are not big sea fishes.. — nixass