In Italian the word for “steering wheel” is very similar to the word for “fly”, so I used to think that the steering wheel was a button you could push to make your car fly. I was seriously disappointed because my parents didn’t use it!
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to think that drivers accelerated by turning the steering wheel.Anon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara
- I used to believe that my parents would give me away if I didn’t do as they said— Albert
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m