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I used to believe…

When I was little I use to play with little cars and drive them around on this map. So I thought that when we went anywhere in a car that a giant hand was driving us around on the road.

I'm from Israel, and in Hebrew the word 'traffic jam' is the same as a cork. And I always believed that traffic jams are caused because there's a cork in the middle of the street (like from a coke bottle) that somebody left and all the other cars are just trying to avoid

I used to believe…

My wife for years after we were married believed that the "Frontage Road" on a road sign was the longest road. She always wondered how they were able to keep it as one road. (:-)

I used to believe that when I was in the car on the highway that we were all in a "huge" indy race.

I used to believe that when you looked up in the sky and saw airplanes and there tail smoke across the sky that those airplanes were called "Guardian Angles" protecting us from evil intruders, not regular passenger jets flying to get people from one state to another.

I used to believe…

Whenever I heard "cross at the green, not in between," I thought it meant that you were supposed to cross the street when the light is green and all the cars are going, and not when the light is in between (yellow or red). Clearly this was wrong. I made up my own rhyme, "Cross at the red, or get run over instead." It took me years to realize that the rhyme just tells kids to cross at the traffic light.

I used to believe…

when we were young, our family would vacation in Wisconsin at a resort on a lake. While traveling on one of the gravel road leading to the lake there was a sign that said Honky Dory, and we looked and saw a road grader. Until we were older and know the difference, we always thought a road grader was call a Honky Dory!

I used to think that the exhaust smoke coming from jets as they streaked across the sky actually made the clouds.

I used to believe…

You know the road sign when you are coming up to a junction or croos roads with the main road bigger? I used to think that they were signs for te firefighters showing where they could fill the fire engine up because i thought they looked like those red things you see in films!

I used to believe…

Up until I was in my twenties I could not understand how Deer Crossing signs worked.. I mean, how could the deer understand that they were supposed to cross the road where the sign was??? It didn't dawn on me until one day I saw a neighbor had posted a "baby raccoon crossing" sign in the neighborhood - that did it for me - I knew that baby raccoons could not possibly understand the sign...then it all started filtering in.....

I used to believe…

My sister and I used to believe that my Dad could correctly predict when the stop light would turn green. We would try to out guess him but always lose. It wasn't until I was about 7 that I realized that the stop light going the other way turned yellow right before our light turned green...

I used to believe that the "jet stream" that they spoke about on the weather was created by jets. I would see a jet fly overhead, but the weather didn't show it anywhere near my state. What a gyp!

I believed that the rotation of cars tires caused the earth's rotation, that really people in cars stayed pretty still and the tires moved the earth beneath them toward their destination.

I used to believe…

When I was small, I was convinced that if my father would let me open all four doors of the car while we were moving they would act like wings and the car would fly.

I used to believe…

My parents had me convinced (and I still cant do it) that if you ran the vacuume over the cord, you would die. And they told me that the yellow lines in the middle of the road are where runaway kids have to walk. Also, the "watch for falling rocks" signs meant that you had to watch for a little runaway indian boy named Falling Rocks.

I used to think that since some planes were faster than sound, when you would talk on them, no one could hear you, except for maybe people in the bac of the plane that might catch your words wizzing by!!!!!!!!!

I used to believe…

Some really smart kid told me that the sensation of movement while in a car was an illusion. Really, it was the earth turning. I was ready to buy this until I noticed cars coming in the opposite direction - then I became very confused.