# Things I Thought When I Was a Kid

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-thought-when-i-was-a-kid/122166>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 3, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-thought-when-i-was-a-kid/122166 "2002-08-03T13:11:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-thought-when-i-was-a-kid/122166/101 "2002-09-16T04:54:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by chique \*  
> \*\*Cars didn’t move - roads did - and God in his heaven controlled each and every one of them on a huge gigantic Etch-A-Sketch. \*\*

My just-turned-4-years-old grandson thinks that the car moves, and that it makes the road move. I can’t convince him otherwise. He’ll say, “But see?”  
He told me that it’s all right that I don’t think the road moves, but it really does – it’s just that I have “old eyes” and can’t see it.

I pointed out that he can watch cars driving past my house, and that he can see that the road doesn’t move. He claims that’s because my road is made out of rock, so I asked him what the freeway (which we were on at the time) was made of. “I don’t know… paint?”

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**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-thought-when-i-was-a-kid/122166/102 "2002-09-16T05:22:45Z")

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If you unscrew your belly button, your butt will fall off.

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