When I was little, my dad always told me that the triangle button on the dashboard (for the flashers) were a seat ejector and that if I ever pushed it, I would shoot through the sun roof and into space. I panicked the day our car broke down and he had to push it.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe