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!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I thought that the sign "!" meant: "look at the wonderful landscape"— Giorgos
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard
- When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!— Lou V.
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- Yesterday I realised that invisible ink doesn`t make me invisible.— Jonathan Eleven years old