Rocket Cars!

So who knows how a car works?  The real way a car works with the pistons, and the tiny explosions causing the pistons to move up and down and whatever else needs to happen to make that car move.  

I don't know how a car works, all I know is that you stick the key in, make sure you have gas and fluirs are good, then you're good to go.

As a kid my knowledge was limited to so much less, but the imagination had no limits whatsoever.

There were so many times when I would sit in the passenger seat and see the cars in front of us, then I would wonder how the cars work.  The solution was simple and easy ... the way cars would work was because of the "rockets" at the back of them.  You know the rockets I'm talking about right?  The exhaust where all the crap comes out of.  

For me these were the rocket blasters that would spit out all the push the car needed to make it go.  I pictured it like a rocket ship but without the fire and smoke (well some cars had smoke coming out of them so that was different), the cars would be propelled by the rocket blast.  

Some cars had two of them, so that would make them go faster!  The trucks had them on the top and the holes were bigger, so I figured that it was needed to push them since they were bigger.  Planes had the giant ones and well I actually had that part right about the planes since they are sort of rockets strapped to the wings!

My whole world came crashing down once I was taught that the rocket blaster holes were actually where all the garbage would come out from.

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