transport: cars

When i was younger and saw the lights on the dashboard when you turn the blinker on, i used to think the car was doing it by itself and was telling my parents where to turn.

When I was little I didn't know that cars drove on different sides of the road, so I'd sit there at the side walk and wait for 2 cars to go by and wait for them to crash.

When I was a kid my pops used to tell me and my siblings that the button to turn on the hazard lights in the car was an ejector seat and that if any of us were misbehaving he would shoot us all into the sky. Needless to say, I never touched that button until I started driving...

When I was little, my dad had a truck with two gas tanks. He used to tell us that the button to switch from one tank to the other was a blow up button. I believed him until I was 12.

I used to believe that if you didn't wear your seatbelt when the car was driving, you would automatically be thrown through the windscreen

I used to believe that if you touched the cigarette lighter in a car, the car would instantly burst into flames.

When I was little, I used to believe that the clicking sound the blinker made in the car forced the car to turn, so I would lean up to the back of my mom's seat and make noises when we passed McDonalds to make her turn.

When I was young I couldn't wrap my head around the concept of a car engine. So I always wondered how the driver of a car could be strong enough to pull everything that was in the car behind him!
I remember being especially puzzled when we moved houses and my dad was driving a moving van.

I used to believe my mother had a map of the world in her head. How else did she always know how to get where we were going? And when I asked her, she confirmed it.

When I was little my mother told me that if I used the cruise control on my car it would get stuck and I would have to drive forever.

When I was little I always wanted a mustang convertible. My mother told me they were death traps. So I had this image of accidentally driving off of a mountain side (in the middle of Kansas) and the car would crunch up and kill me when it fell off the mountain. But another inexpensive normal car would be just fine.

I used to believe that one side of the road was for people with red lights on their car and the other side was for people with white lights on their car.

When I was little I used to believe George Washington (yes, the first president of the United States) was standing in the middle of the highway directing cars where to go, and that traffic was caused by him messing up. In my young visual of this he was wearing his military suit with a white wig, holding a flag.

when i was little i used to believe that in my dads '94 z28 red comaro when i would pull on my dads ear the car knew and locked to keep us safe

When I was about seven to nine years old I used to believe that the price that you see on the gas pump from the previous user was what we had to pay. So if it read fifteen bucks, we had to pay fifteen bucks.

My parents used to tell me that if I didn't wear my seatbelt then we would automatically get in a crash. It was a really good way to get me to wear my seatbelt but whenever someone didn't have theirs on I would freak out.