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I used to believe…

When I was smaller than I am now, I used to think that traffic lights were operated by very small people, who live inside them. They could see when no cars were approaching and the green man would allow me to cross the road.

I used to believe…

At my elementary school, they called the buses by a color. My bus was "blue bus." Before I actually saw it, I thought that my bus would actually be blue. On my first day of school, I realized that all buses were yellow.

I used to believe…

The road signs on California freeways depict the California Poppy. Driving by the signs on the freeways I always thought they looked like tornados and so thought that we were at risk for getting sucked up into one at any time!

I warned my mother about this at some point in life and she laughed and laughed...then explained what the signs were.

I remember my best friend and I used to always hold our breath going over the bridge that's over the river close to our home, in case we fell in. I'm not sure if we really believed it or not, but I remember doing it every time.

I used to believe…

This is actually my college roommates belief.

You know how wheels on cars sometimes look like they are going backwards when the car is going fast? Well, her father told her that they really were going backwards, because everyone knows that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Well, when she was 16, she was out with friends, and someone mentioned how funny it was that wheels look like they go backwards, and she proceeded to enlighten them with her father's explanation, that she had believed for all those years. :o)

I used to believe…

one time i saw a movie where this guy jumped out of a train and didnt get a scratch well ever since then until i was 8 i wanted to jump off a train too so one time i was on a train and i literally tried to jump off...luckily the doors to the outside were locked

i used to believe that electric cars had to be plugged in to outlet to work. I was wondering why i never saw any cars with really long cords trailing behind them!

I used to believe…

When I was child I believed that all of those buildings labelled "Body Shop" were places adults could go to trade in their used-up bodies. And they were very popular, judging by the number of cars that always surrounded them!

I used to believe…

When I was little and me and my family would be in the car and we would go under an overpass or bridge I would duck my head because my friends told me that if you didnt your head would get cut off!

I used to believe…

When I was little I did not understand why people were afaid they would get hurt in a plane crash. I thought you could just jump out of the plane right before it hit the ground and walk away.

I used to believe that there were tiny people inside traffic lights, looking at how busy the traffic was, and knowing when to turn it green. I thought how interesting it would be to have that job.

I used to believe…

A friend told me and a few other friends the other day that her mom had told her when she was little that if she inhaled petrol fumes she would die, so every time her parents went into a gas station, my friend would hold her breath!

I used to think that when a car would drive on grass the battery would die. Cars that breakdown are for the most part on the side of the road. I used to get scared when my dad drove near grass.

I used to believe…

When I was little I believed that cars could drive up over the huge humps that some bridges have on top of them and then come down to road level again, and when I didn't see any cars do it I just thought I was there at the wrong time or that they were just being modest and trying not to show off or that they chose not to drive over the humps at the time I was going across that bridge.

I used to believe that when people would say, Never drink and drive, that you couldn't even drink soda or water. So one day, my mom was drinking a soda and I screamed, "MOM! What are you doing? You're drinking and driving!" She started laughing so hard that she almost hit the person in front of us.

I used to believe…

when i was little i used to think that when you were in the check in lounge waiting on the seats that you were actually on the plane!
i wandered why it never moved very fast!