I remember quite vividly a time when I was about five years old. After visiting a McDonald's, my dad was driving my Mom and I to my Grandmother's. I was happily eating my Happy Meal when suddenly I realised that the family was in grave danger. Hysterically crying, I told my dad he would kill us all because he was "drinking and driving" just like the tv commercials warn you not to.
My mother got a huge kick out of trying to explain the relative safety of the effect of strawberry milkshakes on one's motoring skills.
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When I was four or five, the theme song to Chevrolet advertisements went "the heartbeat of America is today's Chevrolet". Because of this, I thought that Chevrolet made a different kind of car ever day, for instance, they might make Impalas on Monday, Citations on Tuesday, etc.
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My parents liked to take long drives on the weekend for something to do. In the Winter they often took us kids to a cliffside lighthouse on a narrow, windy road. As it was always foggy and raining, I used to believe that the big yellow CONGESTION sign meant "be careful or you will catch a cold"
I used to beleive that the sighting poles and crosses used in motorway construction sites were actually the hastily dug graves of the poor workers who had died creating the transport system!
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I and my sisters believed that every airplane that we saw overhead, my grandma was on it, traveling, and so we would wave at her.
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the Traffic signs point up (as up ahead) meant straight up litterally...I always looked up at nothing rather confused, my dad let it last as long as he could becuase it made him laugh so hard :)
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When my dad was driving along a road and beeped the horn on the car for no apparent reason, he used to tell me he did it because there was a fly on the road and he didn't want to run it over! I must have been about 8 before I realised he was taking the p**s..!
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When I was about five or six, I used to believe that the button on your seatbelt, and if you press it, the car will turn in a ice-cream van!!! Glad i do Not believe that now.
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MY mom woudl always tell us kids "don't hang your hands out of the car when I'm driving or they will get chopped off"
I grew up thinking there were really creepy people who drove around incars with knives chopping off little kid hands just for kicks.
It never dawned on me until I was an adult that my mom meant that it would happen if she got in an accident.
My brother, it turns out, believed the same thing his whole childhood as well.
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sitting on my dad's lap while he was driving as a child, I always thought that the turn signals told you where to go if you ever got lost.
I used to believe that there was some cruel force in the universe that knew which bus you wanted to get and prevent that bus from ever appearing. (Most buses in Seoul, Korea don't run on schedule but appear every 5 minutes or so.) I would sometimes try to make myself believe that I really wanted a 588-1 when always needed that 135 to get back home quickly. Or better yet, wish for a taxi. Then 15 minutes later, I'd give up and walk home. I believed this all the way through 6th grade or so.
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My dad told me that people riding in airplanes could see me on the ground if I was outside, so I always had to wave everytime one flew over.
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I used to think that when sombady when to the bathroom in the plane it would go strait out and fall on sombody
I used to believe that when my parents and i were driving home at night the moon would follow us to make sure we got home safely,
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when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great danger
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if a car's door was open then it could take flight. i had all of my hotwheels with there doors open so that they could fly. i saw the whole thing on a cartoon. and cartoons never lie to you, do they?!
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cars will fly with there doors open one day!?
I used to believe that if you were stuck at a red light, you should blow real hard an swish your hands so that it turns green! I did this up until i was about 7.........LoLz
i used to think the pedestrians were people who had a job to pull a lever that would make the earth move instead of the car being the one to move.
I used to think it was against the law to drink soft drinks while driving because of all the signs I saw that said "Don't Drink and Drive..."
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I used to believe that the speed of our car depended on how strong my father�s legs were. I thought that we went uphill more slowly because he couldn�t press the gas pedal hard enough. I now think I�d made an analogy with the brake pedal. Once, our crowded car stalled while going up a hill and my dad said something like �The engine�s not up to this.� I was very puzzled because until then I�d thought that the engine�s job was just to amplify my father�s effort. I asked him about it, but it took several questions and a looong time for him to understand me.