I used to think that 'J walking' meant you walked in the shape of a J. I always used to think to myself 'why on earth would anyone want to cross the road in the shape of a J when they will end up in the middle of the road?' I used to do it just because I thought I was being naughty!

Jason

For some reason unknown to me, whenever I would walk down the street I would make sure that whoever I was walking with (usually my dad), would stay on the same sides of objects as me, such as signposts and mailboxes, I was convinced that if we passed such objects on different sides, I would dissapear from on the other side to my dad and go into another world exactly like ours so I would never know the difference.

Anon

me and my friends used to believe that my neighborhood had a bad guy lurking about and that he was going to steal me and my friends' bikes and toys that we left outside at night, so we created a secret agent group where we would run through parks and back yards looking for mischevous characters. i'm sure we were the only mischevous looking things around.

Kat

If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.

Maddie

There was a road named "Napp road" and i thought that there were a lot of kidnappings there so i would always crawl on the floor when we had to drive on that road

Anon

I always thought that roads with the "No Outlet" signs were roads where the houses had no electricity. I thought this until I was 8 or 9.

Ryan

I used to believe the Pass With Care signs on the road meant that you should be very careful if you went into the woods, field, or whatever it happened to be there on the side of the road...

niki

On the way to my old nan's house where we used to go regularly there was a large hotel. My mum used to tell me that it was a childrens home for naughty kids and if i didnt behave i would end up in there. It wasnt until i could read the letters on the front "MOATHOUSE HOTEL" that i knew she was a big fat liar

mummbles

When we were little, my sister and I were told that if we trod on the cracks in the pavement, then a lion would come out and gobble us up.

Anon

In an upper window of a building opposite my father's workplace was a sign saying "Invisible Menders". No prizes for guessing what I thought it meant!

Emerald

i used to believe that sleeping policemen were dead policemen covered with concrete that were buried in the middle of the road. i used to put my feet up when ever we went over them so that they didnt grab me and pull me down with them.

goldfish

When I was little my mom convinced me that little people worked under the road and they change the lightbulbs in the reflectors that look like lights. She said that they live under bridges. I was so scared of going under any type of bridge(over too).

Kierstyn

Whenever we went walking, my mom would tell my sisters and me to "criss-cross" which meant "hold hands with her and hurry up and cross the street before we got hit by a car and smashed flat like a sail-frog." I always did because I'd seen flat frogs by the side of the road that you could sail like a frisby!

small town girl

i used to belive that the 'to let' signs on houses used to say 'toilet' and that ppl were letting ppl use the toilets in there houses.

megan

When I was little we lived out in the country around a lot of tall towers with red flashing lights on them. One time we were driving by one and I saw a little building next to one. I asked my dad what the tower was for and he said "It's a microwave tower", so I thought those little buildings were really HUGE microwaves.

Rosanna

When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!

Lou V.

I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!

Grace Lyon New Addington

My brother told me that Botts Dots, the raised bumps that separate lanes on the highway, were there so that the blind could drive. I couldn't figure out how blind people would know when to stop because they couldn't see stop signs or traffic signals. It was probably 2 or 3 years later when I realized that my mom just couldn't drive in the lane steadily.

Brilliant, Really!

When I was little I thought street lights were homes for little gnomes and that they came on when the gnome needed more light. I was always really upset when I saw a street light not working - the little gnome had died!

Clare

I used to believe that every street light had a switch and there woz a big house full of switches all over the walls

Anon