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I used to believe…

When I was very small, I used to have terrifying dreams about being stuck in a car in the middle of a large drawbridge as it opened. I still do on occasion, and I don't like traveling over large bridges of any kind (sometimes the dreams are about bridges that I know are not drawbridges in real life.) I sometimes wonder whether I am destined to die in a drawbridge accident.

I used to believe…

That when my dad put fuel in the car you could only use petrol from the one petrol company and that if you used fuel from another company your car would break down. I thought the fuel from each company was different

I used to believe that there was a button on the dash board that had to be pushed for the light to change. The problem was that the button was located in a different place for every traffic light. My parents would tell me, when I didn't try to find the button, that the light changed because another child in a different car had found it.

I used to believe that when my parents drove to my grandparents house they could do something to make the trip long or short. I would always hope they would make it short. It took a while for me to realize that the "short" trips were short because I had fallen asleep.

I used to believe…

This concerns the large pieces of rubber that come off the tires of semi tractors and trailers.
When my son was about five and we were driving on the freeway, I told him this was wild rubber that was run over while trying to cross the interstate at night. He believed that for a couple of more years before finding out the truth.

I used to believe…

Not quite my own belief.... when my son was small we frequently had to cross a draw bridge, naturally the aproach to the bridge was always preceded by a sign that simply said, "Draw Bridge". We still laugh at how furiously he would fraw a bridge so that we wouldn't fall into the water while crossing the bridge.

I used to believe…

When I was just learning how to read larger words, we always passed a road sign that read "Pavement Narrows" I kept looking for Indians because I thought it said "Primitive Arrows"

I used to believe that the gas tank worked like a timer and that if you were almost on empty, you just had to drive faster to get there before the gas ran out. I used to tell my parents this "easy" solution everytime they said we needed gas.

I used to believe…

We lived in a very rural part of Pennsylvania where there were no red lights, only stop signs. Someone told my older sister that the stop signs with white around the edge meant that stopping was optional at them. Well, all stop signs have white around them but she believed them until after she was old enough to drive.

I used to believe that freeways (Highways) were giant conveyor belts, and when cars got onto one it would know where the driver was going, and would deposit the car at the exit nearest thier destination. I was a weird kid! :-P Still am weird!

I used to believe…

When I was young and tried to sleep in the backseat of my parents car while driving down the highway, my parents would wait until I was dozing off and say excitedly to each other 'Look! Look at that herd of elephants! There must be 100 of them!" As dopey as I was even I knew that couldn't be [living in Canada] but they were persistant. I had to get up and look. They were twisted at times.

I used to believe…

When I'd go on road trips with my parents, every time we'd cross the state line, they'd make the car "bump," like we were going over a speed bump. Until I went on a road trip without my parents when I was a teenager, I thought that there was an actual "line bump" for each state line.

I used to goto the store with my mom, and sometimes waitin the car. She would notice my interest in the cigerette lighter. She told me if I pushed it in, the car would explode. The first time I pushed in the lighter, I was 10 years old, and broke out in a cold sweat.

I used to believe…

My family would goto Italy every few years. The flights always flew through the night. I used to believe the airplane would actually leave the Earth, fly through outer space, and then return to Earth to land in Italy.

i thought the traffic lights were just christmas lights all year long to make the roads look pretty. i could never figure out why my parents always stopped at them. so, in regards to that, i always through a fit and told my mom to start driving.

I used to believe…

When I was a child I used to believe that the �Don�t drink & drive� public service announcements, literally meant you were never allowed to drink any type of beverage in the car � even a soda pop!

I used to believe…

My mother told me when we passed by an older airport near our town that "the airplane people put blue lights where the planes land." Well, that airport closed and I had always figured that they ran out of space for new blue lights because too many planes had landed there.