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I used to think that to drive a car you had to know how to go everywhere because how else would you know which side of the road to drive on?

I used to believe…

My mum had a car called an Imp and I was convinced that the noise the indicators made was the car saying 'take look', which told other cars to look out because we were turning.

For years I believed that indicators were called 'take looks'. It probably didn't help that my parents humoured me by calling them that.

I used to believe…

When we were in the car as we drove past the No entry sign my 2 cousins Danielle and Kirsty told me that that ment no talking if your under 5, I carried on beleiving that for a long time.. Kids can be so cruel.. But i do use it on mine now

I used to believe…

When I was about three years old, I remember being in a car that was stuck in a traffic jam for ages, and behind a caravan. This made me think that the caravan was called a "traffic jam"

i thought dat road signs were jst there because they looked nice, so i put one up on my street saying my house!

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When I was real little, and I would be in the car with my mom driving, whenever she took a left turn, I would have to warn her that she just went through a red light. Well, the red light was for the street she was turning onto. duh.

I used to think that the sign that said "do not pass" meant that it was forbidden to go past that point in the road. I thought my mom was breaking the law.

I used to believe…

When I was younger my brother told me that the white streaks of smoke that a jet leaves in the sky would kill me if they fell on my head, but only if there were two streaks of smoke. I believed him.

I used to believe…

When I was little, whenever we seemed to pass a "do not pass" sign, we were near a wooded area. So I always believed that those signs were telling people that they couldn't enter the "forest". And when we passed a sign that said passing was okay, it was alright to enter the "forest".

I used to think the double yellow no-passing lines in the middle of the road were a bicycle lane, and I wondered why I never saw anyone riding their bike in it.

I used to believe…

When I was little my dad told me that monkeys lived inside the stoplights. I used to picture them in there eating vanilla icecream (cuz that was my favorite ice cream at the time)

I used to think that car tires were giant Oreos. I have no idea why.

I used to believe when i was younger that if i saw airplanes in the sky that left the trail of smoke behind them, that they were Care Bears in their cloud cars hahaha. :)

I used to believe…

That little men lived in the traffic lights and that's how they changed at the right time.

I used to believe that the road sign for slippery roads (the back of a car with squiggly lines behind it, on a yellow background) actually meant, "beware of busses on tall squiggly legs." I could picture these towering busses on wobbly legs attempting to step over traffic. I still have to tell myself that that isn't what they've depicted.

I used to believe…

When I traveled to Slovenia I saw a sign on the right side of the road which said: Maribor-ZAHOD(west). But on Croatian "zahod" means toilet....I believed that it lead to toilet....not west....