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You know when you're on an airplane and, as you're landing, your ears pop and it's hard to hear? My friend told me how to fix it (plugging your nose, then trying to breathe out through it while it's still plugged). Well, doing that made such a loud popping noise in my ears that I thought a part of my brain had exploded. People must have thought I was crazy...
I used to believe that new cars were built right at the dealerships before being put out for show on the lot.
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I used to think that cruise control meant the car steered itself. I always wondered how it knew when to take curves.
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My father always drove a truck, and my mother a car. So naturally I believed that only men could drive trucks, and women could drive cars. Then one day my moms car wouldn't start, so she drove the truck to the grocery store. Of course I had to ask her if it was legal.
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There was a concrete plant near my house. A sign at the exit, directed towards truck drivers leaving the plant, read "Remember, when you leave this spot, YOU ARE Century-Crete." I always thought that was a warning to trespassers - if you fell in the concrete-mixing vat, there was no mercy. You were now a part of the concrete.
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When I was younger I always thought that all the cars on the left side of the road all had white lights only and all the cars on the right had red lights only. I was soo confused when I found out that our car had white lights too!
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When my family went on long drives, I thought that the "Do Not Pass" signs meant that we were breaking the law every time we drove past the sign. I remember getting really nervous and looking for police cars.
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I used to think that countrys were layed on top of eachother with clouds in-between and thats why we took areoplanes, because they would fly us up there.
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When I was younger and I was traveling in the car I liked to stick my hand out of the window and feel the air push on it. My father told me that if I did that then a man on a motorbike would ride past and chop my hand off with an axe. And I haven't done it since.
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we have road signs that have a car on two wheels with two squiggly lines underneath it. (which means the road is slippery) but when my brother was little he beleived that if you parked your car in this area, people would draw lines on your car.
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When I was little I used to think that traffic lights where like periscopes on submarines. I thought there were people down the bottom of the pole who looked out of the lights and knew wen to change them!
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I used to think that little people lived inside traffic lights and made the light change colors.
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Am I the only person who turns off windscreen wipers when driving under bridges, irrespective of how narrow or high the bridge is. It makes me laugh every time. I guess my belief is that its saving something in the long run.
I was at least 8 or 9 before I finally realised that the exhaust pipe didn't actually push the car along like a small jet, and that the engine made the wheels turn instead.
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My sister told me that when riding a train if I heard a noise that sounded like a the train's horn it was in fact a creature called a 'Beebarp' getting run over. 'Beebarps' apparently ate children and kept their left over toe nails on necklaces.
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I used to think that the signal lights on a car knew the way to the destination and changed whenever you were about to make a turn.
I once believed that cars would not move, only the streets and ground. I believed with all land transprtation apart from bikes, ect. Apparently, my mother believed the same thing when she was a child.
I used to believe that my dad kept a mini cooper in the boot of his volvo, because one night when he came home in a mini rather than his normal volvo he explained he kept it there and in an breakdown situation took it out and "pumped it up" as a spare car!
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When I was a little kid, (6 and under,) I believed that all you had to do was hold the stearing wheel, and the car would automaticaly go.
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When I was about 4, I used to believe that when traveling on a road that said dead end, you would die at the end of the road.
