I used to think that crash test dummies were people who'd been in car accidents, and anyone who had an accident would look like that forever afterwards. I'd seen too many car commercials where they show footage of the crash tests, I guess.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you didn't put on your seatbelt, you WOULD crash.— Mer
- That if you didn't have your seat belt buckled up when the car was in motion, it would crash.— Dave Smith
- I used to believe the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a literal car crashing into a bank.Anon
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- everybody else were robots and I was a human test!
— Chas - I used to believe that whenever I got an F on a test it stood for fantastic. — megan