When I was preschool age, I didn't have a very good sense of space yet. In the car, I'd see us driving towards objects that were, at that distance, positioned "above" the hood. Since they were in line with the hood, and moving toward us, I reasoned that it meant we were hurtling straight toward them! It made car rides pretty stressful until I figured out I was simply wrong.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- I thought that a person's motorskills meant how good they were at driving!Anon
- I used to believe wolverines made good housepets -- I was wrong.— I told you so
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- I thought when someone was described as being "mild-mannered" it meant they didn't have very good manners— Samilton Duerheiser
- I used to think I smelled wrong, but I figured out it was because we never used dryer sheets. — blnkfrnk