I used to think that there was some kind of portal to my hometown from Southern California, because I recall us driving out of SoCal and suddenly ending up in my hometown: turns out I was just asleep for that whole time but woke up later.
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I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.
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As a very young chid I belived when on a train that there was a very strong man outside at the back of it pushing it along very fast with all his might.
I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.
I used to think that planes were held up by strings
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I used to think that if you misbehaved on a train, the driver would open the doors, tilt the train sideways and make you fall down the gap.
I used to think all train lines in London were connected to ones all over England, so if you went from Baker Street to Yorkshire, for instance, then you'd be on the same train the whole time, before realising that they all terminated at different stations in
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I used to think that when you were waiting for a train, the driver would announce that the train was coming on a megaphone when approaching the station, and you would hear their voice from all the way down the track.
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When I was a child I compared cars with us and now that I am older I see that if there is some truth to that, what I liked the most was that I imagined a face for each model of car that I saw
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When I was a kid I asked my mom what the city bus was, and she told me, "It's stops and picks you up and takes you downtown." She didn't mention the fact that it was a voluntary thing, that you had to WANT to get on the bus and to pay a fare, so I just got the idea in my head that if I happened to be walking down the street and the bus came up alongside me it would just stop and abduct me, so for a long time I was very wary of the bus.
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I thought that "jet black" referred to the kind of jet you fly in, which I found odd as I had never seen a black jet plane.
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I thought human trafficking just meant people breaking traffic laws, and didn't get why people were so outraged about it
I used to believe that on military planes that have shark mouths painted on the nose I showed an aggressive look in which I was scared to see it.
I believed that if the car I was riding in ran over the match that someone had just thrown out of their window, that we would blow up.
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As a kid, I took all road signs very literally. If it was 80 degrees in the summer, I wondered how the bridge would freeze before the road in such warm weather.
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I thought that the picture of the swerving car on the “Road may be slippery ahead” signs was a car that had big robot legs.
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In Italian the word for “steering wheel” is very similar to the word for “fly”, so I used to think that the steering wheel was a button you could push to make your car fly. I was seriously disappointed because my parents didn’t use it!
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when I was a kid I used to look out of the car thinking a clown would attack me
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When I was little, I used to believe that there was a man in the red lights. This man had to go through the red light at the green light. When the red light was long, I thought that the man was asleep. My parents told me that I was not true. They told me it was automatic. I was reassured because I thought that the man must be tired. Today when I'm at a red light, I still think about this anecdote and I laugh...
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When I was a little girl, I used to believe that if I didn't use the zebra crossing on the white stripes I would die in the lave. So everytime I saw a zebra crosing I walked just on yhe white stripes. Now when I see a zebra crossing I still think about this belife but I resist and I don't walk on the stripes !