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I used to believe that planes needed to flap their wings to get off the ground, and they stopped flappipng only once they were airborne. When I was on my first flight, I thought something was seriously wrong as we went down the runway with wings completely motionless!

I used to see anti-littering signs that read "Littering is Unlawful". Maybe because I didn't know the word unlawful, I always read it as "Littering is Unawful", which confused me for years!

I used to believe…

One day when I was young, my mom and I were out on the town. I was sitting in the seat next to her and was drawing a picture. When I was done, I asked my mom to look at it. She said she couldn't cause she was watching the road. Well I looked out at the road and saw all these little lines on the roads..I believed that you could tell what road you were on by the lines in the road...didn't know about road signs! I remember thinking I would never be able to drive, cause I wouldn't get all the lines memorized!

I used to believe the sign "no shoulders" meant you couldn't make particular shoulder movements while driving. I could NEVER understand what "soft shoulders" meant. (Now I do)

I'm not sure how old I was when I realized that, contrary to my Mother's stories, it is physically possible to start a car even when your seat belt isn't buckled.

I used to believe…

My family and I use to travel alot when I was young. I thought that when we were driving somewhere and there was a lot of cars comming toward us on the road that they were driving away from a monster and we were heading right for it!

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When I was a child a used to go downtown with my mom by bus, and I believed that the bus driver knew where we wanted to leave, he just guessed with some kind of magical power.

i used to believe that signs on the street that read "pedestrian crossing" meant that only people of a certain religion could cross the street at that particular place.

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When I asked my mom what the
"School X-ing" sign meant, she said that at one point during school, all the kids in that school would line up in a row and draw x's up and down the street and that was the school x-ing.

I used to believe that when we'd drive under a arched bridge that the car would drive on the bottom side of the bridge and we would do a backflip.... WAIT I STILL DO BELIEVE :(

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Living on the coast we went to the beach a lot growing up. On the way we passed through many bridges and we always were told to "hold or breath." I always heard "hold your breast." It took a while for me to catch on..

I used to believe that when my mother was driving, the car would tell her which direction to go, with the blinking arrow (the turn signal)...I never noticed that she'd turn the signal on.

I used to believe…

when i was about 5, my mom used to tell me to hiss at red lights so that they would hurry up and change to green and she could go. i kept doing that until i was about 12. she never really discouraged it, so i figured it must work. people thought i had tourettes.

I believed my dad had this strange control over the windshield wipers. Often when it would rain, he would snap his fingers at the exact moment when the wipers would go across the windshield. I could never figure out how he did it. Come to think of it, I still can't.

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when my daughter was young we told her our car was born at the dealership we bought it from and it was happy when it passed where it was born. We would honk the horn and she thought it was saying hi to its mother.

I used to be terrified of those automatic car washes at gas stations... for some reason all the machinery going around the car and the loud noises made me just FREAK OUT, I thought it was alive or something

I used to believe that while on holiday in Spain, i had seen the red and green man at a pedestrian crossing fight each other, and would tell people about this whenever the thought entered my head until i was about 5. That was only because i again saw whatever film that scene appeared in (i think Superman 1 or 2), and realised my utter stupidity.