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We lived in a very rural part of Pennsylvania where there were no red lights, only stop signs. Someone told my older sister that the stop signs with white around the edge meant that stopping was optional at them. Well, all stop signs have white around them but she believed them until after she was old enough to drive.
Janelle
I used to see anti-littering signs that read "Littering is Unlawful". Maybe because I didn't know the word unlawful, I always read it as "Littering is Unawful", which confused me for years!
Eric
One day when I was young, my mom and I were out on the town. I was sitting in the seat next to her and was drawing a picture. When I was done, I asked my mom to look at it. She said she couldn't cause she was watching the road. Well I looked out at the road and saw all these little lines on the roads..I believed that you could tell what road you were on by the lines in the road...didn't know about road signs! I remember thinking I would never be able to drive, cause I wouldn't get all the lines memorized!
pj
I used to believe the sign "no shoulders" meant you couldn't make particular shoulder movements while driving. I could NEVER understand what "soft shoulders" meant. (Now I do)
i used to believe that signs on the street that read "pedestrian crossing" meant that only people of a certain religion could cross the street at that particular place.
beverley
When I asked my mom what the
"School X-ing" sign meant, she said that at one point during school, all the kids in that school would line up in a row and draw x's up and down the street and that was the school x-ing.
I thought that the sign "!" meant: "look at the wonderful landscape"
Giorgos
My brother told me that tarmac was white and that the road layers had to paint it all black before it was ready. This explained why roadworks took so long. I used to try and catch them doing the detail in the middle.
dodyskin
I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!
years ago when my dad and i use to go to my fiends cottage it would take all night almost so my dad always asked me to talk to him n keep him awake so i did but one day i guess i was annoying him he stopped by this school zone sign saying" watch for children" and he told me the sign ment that if parents kids got annoying all they had to do was drop them off at any of those signs and trade them in for watches i shut up instantly and hit the power lock button till we got there and he giggles the hole way there
next summer i figured it out and then tried it on my cousins n friends
hehehe its being used everywhere i know to little kids that were as gullable as i was
mysteriousbiker
when I was younger I thought that the "do not pass" traffic signs meant that we
shouldn't be driving by that spot. I was so confused as to why they would
put a sign like that on a road, and why they didn't just close down the road.
I never asked my mother, though, because I was afraid to point out that everyday
she blatently broke the law.
erin
the blue 'gas-food-lodging' highway signs used to have a picture of a man taking suitcases out of a car to represent lodging. but i used to believe the sign read 'loading,' and that you could get gas, eat, and have pre-packed suitcases loaded into your car.
since my family never took advantage of this service, i wondered how the man knew what people needed for their trip. i'm no longer confused, as the 'loader' has been replaced by a picture of a 'lodger' in bed...
M.C.C.
When I was about 13 or so...yes pathetic I know...my dad told me that the "No Outlet" signs meant that those poor people didn't have electricity and of couse I believed him for a couple months actually.
Trista
My wife for years after we were married believed that the "Frontage Road" on a road sign was the longest road. She always wondered how they were able to keep it as one road. (:-)
Gary for Janice( My loving wife)
when we were young, our family would vacation in Wisconsin at a resort on a lake. While traveling on one of the gravel road leading to the lake there was a sign that said Honky Dory, and we looked and saw a road grader. Until we were older and know the difference, we always thought a road grader was call a Honky Dory!
anne of IL
You know the road sign when you are coming up to a junction or croos roads with the main road bigger? I used to think that they were signs for te firefighters showing where they could fill the fire engine up because i thought they looked like those red things you see in films!
Ira
Up until I was in my twenties I could not understand how Deer Crossing signs worked.. I mean, how could the deer understand that they were supposed to cross the road where the sign was??? It didn't dawn on me until one day I saw a neighbor had posted a "baby raccoon crossing" sign in the neighborhood - that did it for me - I knew that baby raccoons could not possibly understand the sign...then it all started filtering in.....
clueless in seattle
My parents had me convinced (and I still cant do it) that if you ran the vacuume over the cord, you would die. And they told me that the yellow lines in the middle of the road are where runaway kids have to walk. Also, the "watch for falling rocks" signs meant that you had to watch for a little runaway indian boy named Falling Rocks.
Tanya
I used to believe that the Merging Traffic signs meant that the cars coming in were all from some place called Merging.
We used to go to Lake Tahoe every summer, and there are signs everywhere warning of falling rock...my mother convinced my older sister that 'Watch for Falling Rock' was a sign put up by an Indian Chief years ago, becuase he lost his son, Falling Rock, and they never found him. I believe my sister was well into her teens before she figured it out....
Sam
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