My parents told me that the cats' eyes in hte middle of the road were lit up by a man with a torch running along underground in front of the car.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- i thought that our cats were secret spies for my parents and i would never do anything bad around them. Anon
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon