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I used to believe…
When I was younger, part of my family lived in thise old town that had mainly brick roads. My brother told me when I was about 4 that the brickroads were hollow. I've always pictured.. like a big ol' sewer system. Anyway, I was smart enough to know that cars were heavy ol things.. but i wasn't smart enough to not believe my brother.
I used to sit in the back seat with my eyes clentched and tears streaming down my face.. When I told my parents.. they just laughed..
Well, now I am 31.. and I am smart enough to know my brother was full of crap.. but i still have panic attacks, and start to tear up when driving over them.. Not to mention I speed like crazy down them!
I used to think that traffic lights knew if you really wanted to go past them or not.
This is influenced by my older sister, who told me this when driving me to the mall when I was little. :]
I used to believe…
When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..
I used to think that the turn signal told my mom where to go.
I used to believe that ghost drivers, were cars droven by actual ghosts or by itself, just as in the cartoons. I never really thought of the name until recently when it was in the news.
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When i was a little kid a believed that when we stood at a red traffic light with our car, i have to beg of it that it becomes green. Not in spoken words but in my thoughts. So i always spoke with the traffic light in my thoughts. Some of them needed some time to be to be persuaded (i thought they had a bad day or something), but eventually they all indulged.
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I used to beleive that underneath the traffic lights there used to be a man in an underground room with three switches on for stop,go and prepar to stop!
I used to believe…
We were driving somewhere this morning; Mom, me, and my little sister. I took the opportunity to quiz them about traffic lights.
"What does a red light mean?" I asked.
"Stop," Audrey (3 years old) answered.
"What does a yellow light mean?"
"Go slow."
"What does a green light mean?" I asked.
"GO, DUMB-A**!!" Audrey answered promptly.
I burst out laughing. Needless to say, my mother learned that she needs to watch her language when her younger daughter is in the car!!
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I used to think they let people draw and write on the trains to make them pretty. (NYC in the 80's)Sra. Narcissa
I used to believe…
at first i didnt know how people kill birds so my friend told me that cars fly high in the sky and then the diver picks up his gun and shot the bird down so i believed him
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When I was little my Mom asked me
"How do you get on a plane?" and I simply replied "Jump up" Thats how I really thought you would get on a plane
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When I was about 8 I thought I had come up with a life saving idea. I couldn't understand why when an airplane was going down the people didn't jump out the door right before it hit. I figured anyone can survive a 5 foot jump!
I used to believe…
A friend and I, when we were about eight years old, if we found ourselves sitting in the car stopped at a traffic light, would chant "Red light, red light, turn turn GREEN!" to make the light change. If it didn't change immediately we'd start in with "Please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top?" until it changed.
I'm not sure if I actually ever believed that it was working, or if I knew in the back of my mind that by the time we got impatient and started the ritual, it would be time for the light to change anyways. I strongly suspect that she really did believe in our powers of persuasion over traffic lights.
I used to believe that when you took your foot off the gas, the brake lights would go on. I'm still not completely convinced this isn't true...how would I know? I can't see the back of my own car while I drive :P
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When I was younger I asked my mom why you had to go slow past a school (school zones) and she told me it was in case a kid ran out in front of the car you would be able to stop quick enough to get out and spank them. I was VERY careful not get off the sidewalk when I was at school for a long time after that!
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When I was little my brothers told me that if you opened all the doors of a car at once then it will fly away. I didn't really like the sound of that one.
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Growng up I lived in a house at the end of a cul-de-sac and the streetlight was pretty near my window. Well, every night the light from the streetlight would change from a yellow-orange to white and move across my room. I didn't know why this happened, but for some reason it didn't scare me. I think I was 12 when I figured out it was just my neighbor coming home late from work and his headlights shining in my window as he followed the curve of the cul-de-sac to get to his house.
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i use to beleive that if you rubbed your hands together, got them really hot and pointed at a traffic light, it would turn green.
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I used to believe…
When I first started seeing the abbreviation BLVD. on street signs, I thought it stood for "beloved". I had not yet heard the word "boulevard".
I used to believe that at dusk someone would turn on a switch that would give traffic lights more power so the red, yellow and green could shine brighter, so drivers could see them better. After all, it was dark, and the lights looked brighter to me. Near sun-up, I believed that they would turn the power back down so the lights would not be as bright during daylight, because they didn't need to be.
And this was long before any energy crisis.
