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When I was 6, my grandpa used to let me sit on his lap and steer the car on the highway. He had giant cadillac with an enormous hood ornament. He told me that in order to keep the car on the road I had to keep the hood ornament lined up with the solid line on the right side of the lane. It actually worked pretty well (exits aside). I couldn't figure out how my mom managed to keep her Volkswagen slugbug on the road.
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Whenever we passed "No Passing" signs I thought we were breaking the law so I always got scared and started looking for police. I never told my mom even after I figured out what they really were until about a year ago and I'm 22.
i used to belive that in the traffic lights there were many little people working the lights.
I thought the car the Flintstones drove (or should it be "ran") was actually a real car, and I used to look for people's legs and feet under a car.
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when i was very young i used to believe that there was a creature tho lived underneath roads in a wierd controll room, who changed all the trafic lights by pressing buttons, he looked a bit like chewbacca
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That if you didn't have your seat belt buckled up when the car was in motion, it would crash.
I used to think that little men were inside the traffic lights so they could the colors!
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When I was about 6 or 7 my brother was about 16 at the time, and just got his "automatic" car, and I always thought that automatic cars drove themself..
I used to believe that my mom was a criminal. I didn't realize that "Drinking & Driving" was alcohol specific. I used to sit in the car and watch my mom drink her bottles of Diet Pepsi thinking of how BAD she was! I was always too terrified to say anything, and was so nervous that we were about get arrested!
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The front of the car was always NORTH.
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"Don't drink and drive" was drilled into my head at a very early age. I remember driving in the car with my father when I was about 6. I started crying because he was drinking a can of Pepsi. I thought he was going to get pulled over and arrested.
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Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes.
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When I was about 4 years old, I used to believe that when my Dad and I went to a gas station to fill the car up with more gas, the car could go faster again.
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I used to believe that you had to pay for gasoline with a credit card only. I didn't think that you could pay cash for gas at the gas station.
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I used to think that 'Self Drive Hire' was a fantastic idea. A van that could drive itself. How good is that???
I used to believe that traffic lights were controlled by men in chairs somewhere and whenever the light took a really long time to turn green they had fallen asleep or went out to get coffee, and once I tried to get out of the car to wake them up to turn the light green. My mom almost went crazy when I did that!
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I used to think the "no stopping sign" used to be a "no shopping sign" and I asked my dad how would people survive?
I was about 4 and a half years old.
I used to believe that road signs that said "No Passing" meant you couldn't pass that point in the road. I always wondered why my parents drove past those signs.
i live in chicago, and when i was little, my mom and me took the electric train downtown. i fell asleep and when i woke up i looked out the window and i said, "mommy look....we're in China." to my dissapointment, my mom said, "no that's china town...we're still in chicago." i was mad, but hey...kids believe everything.
I was a kid when the FIRST Herbie movies came out, and Wonderbug was on TV. One day after church, someone was using the PA system on their CB in the parking lot. So I realized that some cars could, in fact, be alive and talk. Every Sunday while waiting on the adults, I would go around to different cars and say "hello," hoping one of them would talk back!
