My parents drove a stick shift and I noticed them moving it back to first gear at stops. When I was little I thought they were just wiggling the stick around for fun every so often.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- My wife used to believe that the purpose of the stick shift in her Dad's car was to stir the gas.— Curt
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela
- My friend used to think hit me with your rythm stick was hit me with your fiddle stick!! lolAnon
- i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back— cope
- i thought that if you broke the law a officer would come and hit you with a night stick— Ron