transport: cars

I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!

I used to belive that if you got hit and injuried by a car on a crossing, and did not have your feet exactly on the white stripes, The insurance woldn´n cower for the expences !!

as a child i could never stand to travel in a car at night because all the lights you saw were red in front of you so, of course, this means you're on the road to hell because all the whilte lights coming towards you are going to heaven. then again when i did turn around i saw all the lights coming towards me were white and all the lights travelling further away were red. guess we were screwed either way.

Our children believe there are alligators on the Interstates and Highways, because every time we pass a piece of rubber on the road from a retread, my husband hollars "road gator", and all the kids start looking around.

I used to believe when I was little that when driving in a car, the car stayed still, at the top of the world and by using the controls, the world would move.

i used to believe cars could fly, but only the rich had them in big cities. Thus, i never saw them.

Iused to believe that car engines where in fact horses and when you put petrol in t was their food. I was very dismayed the first time I saw the inside of a car!

When I was little, I used to believe that my dad was enormously clever, because however far we were driving, he always knew the way. I imagined every trip was like knowing how to get from our house to school, once you'd made the journey 4 or 5 times, you remembered it, but someone who knew the way had to show you first.

I also used to worry in case we had to go to the wrong sort of garage and get different petrol than that currently in the tank. I thought you couldn't mix Esso with Shell for instance.

When we were driving on a particularly hilly road, my mom told me that, when I got to driving, I should be careful because when you switch the car into neutral, the brakes don't work.

I used to believe that the cats eyes i the middle of the road actually were just that! And that everytime my dad ran over one in the car, he had killed a cat!

My parents told us that the "child catcher" from "Chitty chitty bang bang" drove Pickford trucks so to shut us up on long car journeys they would tell us they could see one in the distance. for years Pickford drivers would see 5 small children all hiding between the card seats being very quiet.

When I was about 5 my parents told me not to stick me arm out the window when travelling in the car as it might be cut off by oncoming traffic. So then I figured that if you stuck your arm out of the window a chainsaw popped out of the oncoming cars bonnet which then cut off your arm. I believed this for a few years.

I lived in a very small town until I was 10. There was only one transport company that delivered there. It was called the Dickie Trucking Company.

Until we moved, I believed that all semi-trucks (lorries) were called "Dickie" Trucks.

I used to believe that if a car or lorry went past you while you were stood on the dropped kerb part of the pavement you would get electricuted. I still occasionally rush to the higher pavement. I'm 25.

I used to believe that the inspection stickers on cars indicated the cost of the car, ie, a 12 meant $12 etc.

When I was small I wondered what force drove cars along.. I decided that it must be something like a jet plane or a hovercraft, so (obviously) the exhaust pipe was the driving force, with the exhaust "smoke" pushing the car along. Eventually, I realised that this wasn't the case because all the cars with one exhaust would only be able to round in circles..

I had used my awesome powers of deduction and prodigous knowledge of "science" to work it out - I seem to remember being absurdly proud of myself!