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I used to believe…

This was our son when he was about 4 years old. We were out for a drive and Bruce started crying and we asked him why. He said through tears that we were running out of gas. We asked him why he thought that. He said well, the gas gage read F and that ment finished. We asked him, well then what did E meen and he informed us that it ment enough.

I used to believe...that airbags we literally bags of air that came out in car crashes so that if the drivers were in a crushed/mangeled car, they could still breather (with the air from the bags.) Made sense at the time.

I did not understand that the reflectors on the road were reflecting our own light from the headlights back at us. I thought that there were tunnels under the road and that there were people shining flashlights from little holes underneath.

I used to believe…

When I was little, around 4 or 5 maybe, and my dad would change gears in the car while we were driving somewhere or would pass someone, I would constantly ask "are you going the speed lemon?" I actually meant "speed limit". I remember my dad laughing when I would ask it and he didn't bother correcting me for a long time.

I used to believe…

when i was little we used to live with our grandma in the country.everytime i saw a plane hovering above me, i always wondered where it was going.one day i couldnt help it and asked my mom.she said "to the city". i had the clearest idea then that the city was somewhere floating up in the clouds!

I used to believe my dad totalled our Opal stationwagon using a sledgehammer. Actually, he'd wrecked it in an accident, and my mom had taken a picture of him next to it, holding a sledgehammer -- but since he had such a temper, I thought he'd just gotten mad at the car!

I used to believe that you had to turn on the turn signals in the car to turn or the wheels would not turn.

I had a young friend whose father would press what looked like a button on the dash of his car, telling her it was turbo boost, and then put his foot down a little harder on the accelerator so the car would 'take off'. She was utterly convinced that the car was going faster because the turbo boost had been switched on!

I used to believe there were little men inside traffic lights controlling them.

I used to believe…

When I saw a road sign that said no outlet that it ment the houses there didn't have electrical outlets. I believed this until I was about 11 and mentioned to my grandma how it must suck to live with no electricity when the next street over had it. I felt pretty dumb when she explained it ment the road was a dead end

I stuck a bunch of coins in one of our cars tape players one time because I thought they were tapes.

I used to believe…

When I was about 7, my family was in the car and I overheard my dad discussing maintenance, telling my mom that when we got home we'd have to rotate the tires. I was very confused and asked, "Um, Dad, aren't they rotating right now?" I got harassed about that one for years.

I used to believe…

When I was test driving my first car, I sat on my left foot and instructed my passanger to wait for me to be all the way out of the car before they started sliding across the seat. They laughed. I found out the windows worked without taking the door apart and my passenger laughed harder. When I swerved a puddle so the water wouldn't splash inside the car and ruin thier pants, they laughed so hard they cried.

While I was growing up mom never had really nice cars. As a kid I didn't notice the differences in my friends cars and ours. I guess one big difference was that the floor wasn't rusted away and all the doors worked. I always thought our car was alot nicer than everyone else's because it was bright yellow.

I used to believe…

when i was about 7 or 8 years old, i thought that cruise control meant that the car would drive automatically where you wanted it to go, which is why i was always confused why adults spent time actually doing the driving themselves, until i figured out that cruise control meant something els a year later...

i used to believe that if you missed an exit when you were going on the freeway, that you would have to keep on going until the end of the freeway to turn around and come back.

I used to believe…

Even after drivers education, I really thought the "feeder" rd. was a really long road that you could take from state to state because you saw it in ,uhm state to state.