I used to believe that my dad made the windshield wipers work by winking. Later I learned what interval wipers are.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray
- I believed that when a star twinkled it was Jesus winking at me. — GoldenGem
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew
- I thought that going to work was a lot like going to kindergarten. — A Wild Cowgirl