i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon - I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra