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I used to believe that my dad made the windshield wipers work by winking. Later I learned what interval wipers are.
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Once when i was small my father, who was always an angry driver made a sharp wrong turn which made a hub cap fall off -he yelled " oh s**t, now i've dropped a real clanger " till i as about 18 i thought hub caps were called clangers
From when i was about 4-13 (and still today i kinda do this) i used to play in the front yard or backyard and that when the cars passed and they saw you the ppl in them would come and get you! So everytime i saw a car or heard one coming while i was out there i would ruuuun as fast as i could either in the garage or to the door or at least to the other side of the house. Everyonce in a while i get that feeling again and i take off running.
teehee...
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I used to believe that new cars were built right at the dealerships before being put out for show on the lot.
When I was little I thought that the road was going to collapse when I was with my mom driving! and that the world would just crumple up and we would be trapped inside! the first one was my sisters entry and the second one was mine!
When i was little me and my older sister believed that cars with one headlight out were Chinese people, so everytime we were riding in the car with our mom and saw one, we'd scream "Chinese people! DUCK!!" and hide under the seats! why we hid from them... i have no clue.
Once when I was young my Dad came home one day and a hubcap was off his tire. The car looked funny and I asked him why it looked different. He told me that an Indian had shot the hubcap off with an arrow. I believed this for a quite some time.
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When my mopm said it was good because she had her own lane on the parkway i thought it meant there were like 100000 lanes so every car could have its own.
When I was an infant, I would sit in the front of the car in my car seat facing the windshield. This of course was before all those new laws about putting the kids in the back and what not. Anyways, my parents told me that whenever they windshield whipers would move that I would close my eyes because I was scared of them.
When my mum was driving us all to school she used to wave at people coming the other way - they in turn used to wave back!!! I thought she was the coolist mum in the world as she had so many friends......... took me ages to work it out, seriously ages!
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I used to believe that you had to turn on the turn signals in the car to turn or the wheels would not turn.
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I used to think that the railing you see on highways was what made the road called a "turnpike" and so was confused when I would see them on regular streets.
When my sister was very small she used to think that the cats eyes in the road were actually little lights and that there was a little man who ran along in front of the car turning them on and another man who ran behind truning them off...classic!
When riding in our car I used to believe that the noises the car made when it went over a small series of bumps in the road was what those car commercials meant by "horsepower" because to me that sounds exactly like a horse running. To this day it reminds me of horses and how I used to think of that noise as the cars "horsepower."
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 think cars drove in perfect single file lines.
I used to read the text on cars' side-view mirrors wrongly. It really says "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear." I thought it was two separate sentences: "Objects in mirror are closer. Then they appear." Like maybe they would suddenly appear after it seemed they were very far away? I dunno, it made sense at the time.
***I used to believe that everyone had to be in bed at a certain time at night and there was always someone who would get up first. and that person would be the first person to be the first one on the road and driving.
I used to believe that a driver changed lanes because there was a sign or signal that told him he had to do it just then and just there. I think I was 5 when I realized that my father was changing lanes at his own discretion.
I used to believe when I was young that the head and tail lamp of the cars are lighted through external electric wires.
I used to think ( when i was about 5 ) that whenever my mom put lots of groceries in the back of the car, it would tip over! I know better know though.