In Sydney, Australia, when I was about 4 or 5, whenever any road construction works started, the workers would always put a sign up a few hundred metres in front of the area to warn people which said "NEW WORK AHEAD". I'd just learned to read and always thought the sign read "NEW YORK AHEAD". Hence, I was very excited whenever I saw this sign because I'd be getting to see the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building etc, because I knew about New York from televesion. Of course I never got to see any of these things. I'd always think it was because my mother had turned off before the road to New York and comforted myself with a "maybe next time".
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia
- i used to think that the road sign "dangerous" was actually "dang-er-roos" a kind of bouncy marsupial— owen cash
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon