transport

I used to believe airplanes used to drop you off in your backyard when your trip was over. Airports didn't exist.

I used to believe…

my older sister convinced me that she could magically predict the way a car was turning because she had special powers. my heart was broken years later when i learned about turn signals.

I used to believe that elves lived inside stop lights and made the light turn from color to color.

I used to believe…

My parents used to tell me that if I didn't wear my seatbelt then we would automatically get in a crash. It was a really good way to get me to wear my seatbelt but whenever someone didn't have theirs on I would freak out.

I used to believe…

When I was a child I though that there were little gremlins in the traffic lights that switched the lights. It always seemed like the lights changed at the exact right moment!

I used to believe…

When I was little, I used to believe that instead of the car moving, the road would move. The car was stationary in one place while the road beneath it moved at the posted speed limit.

..If only!

I used to believe…

When I was little I used to think there was a man inside a tiny box full of buttons and monitors and switches, below the ground in the middle of every intersection and that he controlled all the traffic lights.

I used to think that if a driver of a car set their temperature setting to hot, and the passenger set theirs to cold, that a tiny tornado would form in the car and kill them, because one time I asked my parents how tornadoes were formed and they told me: When hot air hits cold air.

I used to believe…

When i was younger I used to believe that windshield wipers would turn on when you clapped your hands. I thought this was true up to my freshman year in high school.

I used to believe…

When I was little, my dad always told me that the triangle button on the dashboard (for the flashers) were a seat ejector and that if I ever pushed it, I would shoot through the sun roof and into space. I panicked the day our car broke down and he had to push it.

I used to believe…

when I was little I thought there were running mice holding magnets underneath the pavement that made the cars in the passing lane go faster

I used to believe…

after watching a car driving over about 13 red double decker buses, I thought that you had to do that to pass your driving test....

I used to believe that the road sign that said "Watch for Falling Rock" meant look for a little Native American girl named Falling Rock who had run away from her tribe. My dad still tries to keep this one going.

I used to always get mad at my dad for drinking coffee while driving. I though the no drinking and driving rule applied to any beverage

I used to think that in order for a train to move that an airplane would have to fly over the train first!

I used to believe there was some kind of secret to driving as I believed no one could keep the car on the road around all those turns without going off the road.